JB/047/180/001

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15 Decr 1805
Evidence

That it should be in such any such way, or in any
such degree bad, as to render expose the authors of it adverse to public odium
the system and its authors odious to the people, to the people
on whom it is imposed, to the people whose obedience depends
no to it might be weakened by its odiousness, to the people
of by whose obedience their own power is constituted, as certainly not
their interest. But so long as the eyes of the people are not open
to shut against its depravity, the deeper that depravity under the existing system, so much
the better under for the man of law.

On the occasion of this or that particular mischievous arrangement
it is not sufficient therefore to ask – in what particular respect
are they the better for it: where are the fees they got by it?
To profit by it, it is not necessary that from that arrangement
in particular, they should any of them now get a single
fee: to render them one and all the better for it, it is sufficient that if with
reference to the ends of justice, this system – the whole system
taken together be should be, in any respect, the worse.

It is by through the excess of its depravity – its absurdity – its
intricacy – its inconsistency – its incomprehensibility, that the people's
eye has, by more despair, been deterred from looking into it:
been driven from the hope, and thence from the attempt to
comprehend understand it – to comprehend either the substance purpose or
that without which the purpose can never be effectually comprehended,
the pretended reasons of it: be driven into the
recourse, the fr disastrous recourse of squaring their conception giving compleat credit
of it by the accounts given to them of it by their deceivers – and
of looking upon as believing it to be so much the better for every thing whatsoever that has been
shown to make it worse: of following on every each occasion the ideas
of Coke and Blackstone, and regarding on each occasion flagrant mischievousness, coupled
with the absence of every assignable reason, as a proof of excellence.

Identifier: | JB/047/180/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1805-12-15	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-7
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	180	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	john herbert koe	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	15048
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