JB/058/232/001

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23 April 1805
Evidence

Four causes psychological causes must have co-operated
in the production of the imperfections which we that are
about to pass under our review shall have to witness: artifice, indolence, prejudice, imbecillity. indolence,
prejudice, artifice To determine In what proportions they have respectively
contributed to the production of each part of the
work in which these imperfections manifest themselves, will
be extremely difficult be impracticable as much even not to say impossible to determine: in what proportions
they have contributed in the instance of each workman, will plainly
impossible be impracticable in almost all cases.

For here and there an instance, seeing a mischie an arrangement
full of pregnant with mischief and absurdity, you see at the same time this or that individual
are the concerned in giving birth to it, and into the portent of that same individual moreover an assignable profit
flowing from it. Thus, without which danger of injustice you may refer the arrangement with its mischiefs to
the improbity of the individual
the influence expressed by of sinister
interest in the bosom of that
individual – to in a word
to improbity on his part
if to yield to the influence
of sinister interest be improbity
as to the immediate cause.
In other instances wher
no such evidence if the
action of sinister interest
presents itself, it is to
imbellicty – to the defective
state of the mans understanding
that the mischief effect is to
be ascribed.

In a case like this why the question between probity and
intelligence – between the state of the volitional faculty and the that of
the intellectual – is but the question between the remote causes and
the immediate. Absurdity and Of the mode of misdecision radical corruption of
the system of its repugnancy to every end of justice. In the production
of whatever what is amiss in the system, that is of every feature
of the system – which is almost as much as to say the whole of it, improbity
and imbecillity, (if obsequiousness to sinister interest of the system, with the profusion of fraud and nonsense by which it is invelopped and supported is improbity) improbity and
imbecillity have all along contributed in proportions, oftentimes frequently indistinguishable.
Improbity and imbecillity. The qualities are in
themselves dismal: but whence came the imbecillity? from the improbity:
from the influence of the sinister interest. What is the result?
that sinister interest acts has operated partly by its own immediate agency, partly
through the medium of the imbecillity to which it has given birth.

Identifier: | JB/058/232/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-04-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	232	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18901
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