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3 June 1805
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§. 5. 4. Weakening the men's reasoning faculties

The In law, as in religion and government, the importance of this line object of policy to the name of law is too obvious to need
insisting, in stand in need of explanation. Strong and weak are relative terms of relation
is no and less obvious for the penitent case of the lawyer than in that of the Convict
weakness of the religionist lay devotion is the strength of the
strong and weak are terms of relative the The strength in the one part, is
as the weakness in the other. The weakness of the lay-devotee is the strength of the
as the weakness in the priest. The weakness of Lewis the 13th was the
strength of Richelieu: the weakness of Lewis the 14th was the strength
of Mazarine. Of the Duc de Montausier, the Governor of one of
the Dauphines, it was finely said by Fontenelle his eulogist – Not a day but what he strove every day he laboured
more and more to render himself unnecessary. The praise seems to have been
, but Montausier was not the depository of his pupils power, nor was
looked to be.

The congruity of this object in the character of a subordinate
and being that obvious out of dispute, what remains for is are the means.

The three preceding maxims laws of policy are all subservient to this one,
in addition to their respective peculiar particular uses, this use is common to
them all. Keep the rule of action in the dark, discourage criticism,
promote blind admiration, be the subject what it may, what
recipes can act contribute more powerful towards producing the requisite
effect, producing in general prostration of strength in the partic
patient in question the destined victim – the public mind?

There remains To this may be two other strokes articles medicaments of policy that have not yet been
mentioned. 1. Inculcate in the mind of the learner pupil a blind reverence
for antiquity in genera: for the law jurisprudential law, not merely as the work of lawyers,
but as the work of entrant lawyers. 2. Ply him with false
wit: wit; the particular species of false wit invented by lawyer draft for the purpose for though wit, true or false, is not argument, is not reason,
it either may serve as a cloak to bad reason, or a substitute to good,
and in either way both way be conducive to the purpose.

Identifier: | JB/058/149/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-06-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	149	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles	weakening man's reasoning faculties
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18818
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