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Of this persuasion, whe if the cause be looked for
it will present itself in company of be found to consist in neither more nor less than the
opinion entertained by the individual in question, either
on the ground of his own reflection, or on the ground under authority of
the opinions or the supposed opinions of others, that the supposed fact in
question be would on the supposition of its was real being real, be in
a state of disconformity to what is looked upon as the
established mode of being and course of nature.

In the midst of this darkness, in the hope of infusing
into it some faint lights, and for the purpose of affording providing furnishing,
by in the present state of comparative inexperience and
for correspondent ignorance of the age in general and of
the individual in particular, what, in the language of Sir
D Humphry Davy may be called a resting-place for the mind fancy,
an attempt is here made, to find ground on of distinction,
and from correspondent form of expression, for three modification modes
or gradations of this disconformity: disconformity in toto(a) –disconformity
in respect of degree or quality(b) – and disconformity in
species(c) : disconformity in toto being that sort of disconformity importing that some mode of being,
which, supposing it realized, would be a violation of some one or other of the laws
of nature: those metaphorical exposition and fictitious laws
of which an expression exposition supposed to be in some
respects new, is condemned to though not in
any respect in opposition to the generally received
conceptions and opinions, will, in the body of the work, be attempted.

Note 5(a)

(a) Examples – Under the name of a Witch, a woman mounting
aloft in the air, without any other help than that of a broomstick;
2 – a man forcing who has forced himself into a quart bottle.
Laws of nature violated. – 1. The universal law of attraction violated, without adequate
assistance from any of those minor forces, such as magnetism,
and gaseous repulsion or elasticity a &c. which by antagonizing with
it, plur give to the objects which surround us, the situation and condition
made known to us by experience. 2. The of the
in the case of the human species, the laws of the animal economy.

Notes continued.
(b) Examples. Men (say) above 8 foot in height, under the name of Giants; 2. Men (say) above 200 years of age.
Examples. Serpents with wings, under the name of dragons. 2. Men with wings, under the name of Angels: Mermaids – men with fishes' tails instead of legs and thighs.

Identifier: | JB/047/399/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1811-11-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-6
Box	047	Main Headings	rationale of judicial evidence
Folio number	399	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles	note 5 (a)
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d10 / e2 / f10 / f171
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	15267
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