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27 Novr 1811
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§. 7. IV. Of the Religious Sanction.

IX. In the fourth and last place comes the religious sanction.

Under every religion, what is but natural, is –
that, to every important purpose, whether it be from legal
operation or from any other source its that the importance be or the purpose is
deviant, Under any religion it is natural that the the religious sanction should, with its whole force,
power of that religion should with its whole force
if every religion is natural that the satisfaction should
be made to operate, in every legal or otherwise important purpose in restraint of mendacity: – in restraint of deceptitious incorrectness
and incompleatness. The influence of the
a master heads on the minds of his disciple – of the the power of a leader over the conduct
of his followers – depends upon his knowledge knowing what their
conduct was upon the correctness and compleatness of the
information he can obtain respecting their conduct judgment he is enabled to form, as to concerning as to what their conduct probably
on every occasion material to his purpose, probably eventually will be, and thence upon the correctness and compleatness
of the such such information as he is able to be can obtain,
as to what their conduct he under and mode of being is and has been _ their mode of being in every not excepting
their mode of being, in every imaginable point, not excepting their most secret thoughts, intentions, affections and opinions.

In the religion of Moses, and in the religion of Jesus,
throughout of their of their observable conspicuous
degree the energy and as well as steadiness, with which the
force of the religious sanction is directed applied to this purpose, are
are observable in a pre-eminent and conspicuous and pre-eminent degree.(a)

Note (a)
(a) In the case instance of the Hindoo religion, a set of very remarkable
set of exceptions will now be brought to view: but, the by the licence
granted to mendacity in those excepted cases, no material
diminution defalcations materially prejudicial to the interests, is made from the power
defalcation (it will be seen), as under (it will be seen) from the influence
forces of the leading classes. influence and power of the leading classes.

Concerning the perversion made of the force of the religious
sanction necessary by the political sanction, by means of the ceremony
called an Oath, see the Securities Chapter.

Identifier: | JB/047/287/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1811-11-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	047	Main Headings	rationale of judicial evidence
Folio number	287	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles	note (a)
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d14 / e1 / f73
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	15155
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