JB/058/227/001

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28 May 1805
Evidence

Lay aside the idea of fraud and imposture, in the view
of self-called reasoning that provides the you will find
that silliness sort and degree that is without a : the weakness of all the weakness
of childhood without any of the innocence, babes and sucklings without the innocence, who make pretend truth
under the name of reason is risk to works in other
of science in the same age, no such garbage is to be found. In
mechanical in chemical science men make mistakes, but man
made mistakes, the organ of reasoning rationalism may be used with more
or less dexterity, but no where is it the organ in itself found in a debilitated
and corrupted state. Through temerity is was A chemist may arrogate to himself
the glory of a discovery, which belongs to another by a title.
But by what chemist was mendacity, when detected in other matter,
here regarded with any other eye than that of contempt and abhorrence? otherwise than with abhorrence
– what chemist was ever foolish impudent enough or foolish
enough to say to declare, and that in the face of day make a of mendacity, and to say that he
could not make discoveries, if he were not permitted to tell lies?

Yes: so long as the technical system is permitted to
afflict and insult trample upon an otherwise enlightened people
so long as they continue to wear with patience the most degrading
of all claims, those which enshrine cramp bend the will through the medium
of understanding, the mind of the lawyer will be remain composed of
the dregs of all other minds no better than the dregs of other minds.

Religion excepted, jurisprudence is the only science – pretended
science, in which the use of reason is continues to be has quietly discountenanced,
in which the adherence to antient barbarism has been commanded as a
duty: in which the privilege of thinking for one's self has been made
the object of monopoly for the benefit of dead men in the hands of those that are no more.

Let a man make discoveries in mathematics, the more important his discovery,
the surer he may make himself of the applause and admiration of the most eminent among
mathematicians. Let him make discoveries in legislation the surer he may make himself
of the pretended disdain and
of the known hatred real hatred and affected
contempt for the dignitaries of
the law.

Identifier: | JB/058/227/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-05-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	9-12
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	227	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4 / d4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18896
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