JB/058/229/001

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21 May 1805
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So much fo generals – Come we now to particulars.

Being resolved to admire the system – to be persuaded of its
excellence – of the excellence of a system which runs in constant continual
repugnancy to any end of justice, be sure you never suffer
a glance of your mind ever to point to any of those ends,
keep them all as many of them, as compleatly out of sight as
possible: to bring your system in contact with them, would be
to give it its death warrant.

Yes the system is to be bepraised; this is the problem;
this the one thing needful. What is to be done? To be done?
Why that same thing is to be done, which every body has done,
to your hands, – which ready in your hands you see done every where.

It was written so long ago: written by such grave, such
excellent men: men whose names end in us, and gave back to the
ear one of those sweet sounds which it has been in the habit of
connecting with ideas of duty or delight from earliest infancy: written
by men, who were decended from men, who in their time were such
great conquerers: who became conquerers of the world, that is of
every part of it that they could conquer, or that is worth thinking about.

Correspondent to the excellence of the system, is the presumption
of those, by whom its excellence, or any part of its excellence is disputed. Ignorance
or impurity in those two, or a combination of both, you
have your choice of motives. Ignorance? or how is it that any man
should be otherwise than ignorant? a long life would scarce be sufficient for
reading the so much in the titles of the books iw hich all this learning is locked
up.+ + So books ignorance in astrology, alchemy or witchcraft – the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the define essence. What presumption! for an of the present degenerate times
to set up the force of his single evils against that of a host of sages, every one more
learned, more jurisprudent than another, connected together by in a chain of the
length of these eighteen centuries? Such presumption! such intolerable
presumption! would it have been dictated by any but the worst motives, by any but
the most mischievous intentions, the intentions of throwing every thing
into confusion, and re-establishing the anger of
Chaos upon earth? Should there Ends of
justice should any such unwelcome topic be
have intruded itself, which it could not have done
but by fear, persist upon it, assume it as
a self evident proposition that the point a certain way of
contravening those ends, contravening them all in the lump
is the nature of confronting than any of
those arrangements which either are comprized in that body of matchless science or has been derived from it.

Identifier: | JB/058/229/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-05-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	229	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18898
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