JB/058/224/001

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28 May 1805
Evidence

☞ After False Ends & Capricious Ends

Ch. Of Imbecillity, considered as a cause of arrangements
at variance with the ends of justice

On the part of a man who, having before his eyes the list
of the arrangements manufactured set up by under the technical system in opposition
to the ends of justice, should -refo take upon him to speak of them as having, all of them
without exception, had the force of sinister interest for their efficient
and immediate cause, the assertion could be not only rash, but taken in the
character of a universal proposition, unquestionably contrary to truth. untrue.
in some instances, the birth of a sinister arrangement is capable ascribable
of being ascribed to a with little or no danger of to that sinister cause: the in the character of circumstantial evidence the manifestations of the connection
are too strong not to be conclusive.†(a) (a)† Empower the for jurisdiction foundation stealing and other fraudulent factions. In other instances,
data are wanting. The supposed effect is visible: the supposed correspondent cause is visible:
that the latter generative power of the latter is adequate to the production generation of the
latter is also visible: since in instances without number, the same
cases have been seen beyond dispute been seen to be productive of effects
of the same nature. That the supposed cases had the capacity of producing
the supposed effect, is out of dispute: but whether in the pro individual
case in question that capacity was reduced passed on advanced into an agency may nevertheless still be
questionable may be matter of doubt, and that doubt interminable remain matter of dispute disputable.

The cases therefore in which a discerning and cautious mind
will take upon itself to taking in contemplation contemplating case of this or that decision, or doctrine, or
passage in a treatise, or official practice, will take upon itself to pronounce say that it had the force of sinister
for its immediate cause its psychological cause, the force of sinister interest,
the existence of that priv prevalence as well as action of that force being
present at the same time to the conscience of the individual in question,
may perhaps be comparatively few.

At the same time On the other hand if taking the whole mass together he a man
were to say, in all this there is nothing to the production of which
the force of sinister interest would not have been compleatly adequate
without the smallest assistance from any such motive as a regard for
the happiness well-being, or sympathy for the afflictions of mankind, or (what includes
both) a regard for the interests and ends of justice I see nothing in the case that
should render the truth of that conception at all in the least improbable.

Identifier: | JB/058/224/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-05-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	224	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles	imbecillity considered as a cause of arrangements at variance with the ends of justice
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18893
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