JB/058/142/001

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2 June 1805
Evidence

☞ At the conclusion, after Summary?

of the false or sinister ends by the pursuit of which the persons occupied in
the composition construction of existing systems of procedure could not but have
had in view been governed guided enough has now been said already. It may be matter of use
of instruction to convey some general conception of the principal means: the
modus operandi. I mean not the arrangements themselves of detail: of
those as sporting amplification of which the work fabric is composed ample exemplification, and that a pretty
ample one, has already been given in the Table. I speak rather
of the principal instruments: the psychological tools or engines by the help of
which the work of darkness fabrick of deception injustice has been reared, of the general
rules principles or maxims of laws of policy pursued in the execution
of the work.

1. The Our first is was to keep the body of the people in a state of igorance,
as profound gross thick as possible in regard to the contexts contents dispositions of the
law substantive as well as adjective, of the rule of action to which
they were called upon are all seeming to conform, and from which they never could swerve
without from it: to keep the terms of it as unintelligible, and even the
existence of it as little known as possible.

2. Another is was in relation to such parts as they could
not prevent men from being more or less acquainted with, discouraging
as much as possible from all enquiry into the reasons enquiry into the reasons of it
exercising the right of private judgment in relation to it,
insecurities in the field of reason: representing it as either not
standing in need of reason for its satisfaction, or as being founded
in reasons that were too sublime and inglorious to be intelligible.

3. To lose no occasion to opportunity of inculcating in
men's minds one subject a of admiration and veneration a veneration for the law and its professors:
a veneration an admiration as abject and blind and indiscriminatory
as possible.

4. To do any thing that depended to weaken the faculty of reason in their power towards keeping in a state of imbecillity
in men's minds.

5. To use their endeavours in like manner to keep the moral debase the moral corrupt the morals of
from frame of the public mind mankind by weakening their men's attachment regard for truth and justice
by inculcating encouraging in them a disposition to regard mendacity and
injustice inequity and mendacity with indifference, complacency, and even with respect,
with respect, under the notion of their being instruments, necessary instruments of law.

Identifier: | JB/058/142/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-06-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	142	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	18811
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