JB/058/235/001

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12 April 1805
Evidence

What then? – to counteract throughout the interests – to frustrate
the universal wishes of mankind – could such a work if thus arduous
be the result in any degree of design accident – was dirge not design
– deep the deepest design – was not anything less than the most consummate and constant persevering artifice any thing
less than necessary altogether necessary? necessary, on the part of all
persons – in all causes and at all times? What was necessary was power: and this was all.

Not it indeed. Power indeed was necessary: power alone has every where
been sufficient. Genius, discernment, probity – every useful
every commendable laudable endowment – would have been not only superfluous
only but obstructive. Stupidity, the grossest stupidity, has
not only been fully adequate, but in a superior not to say
exclusive degree, serviceable conducive.⊞ ⊞ In addition to the such
intelligence as was necessary
to the direct and useless pursuit
of the sinister ends objects. In aid or in default of artifice two
things and but two things were necessary – ignorance and negligence.
Nonsense in proportion as it is gross, thickens
obscurity: obscurity in proportion as it is thick, protects fraud
against dilution and improper upon the mind of suitor – that
is up of course in all his other forms – the sense of his helplessness
and dependence. The more compleat unintelligible remote from sense the nonsense, the more
mysterious, the more venerable, and when backed with irresistible power
the more awful as well as venerable, the license.

To chance the stable of Bugeas required hervic, almost superhuman
powers: to fill it was matter of no such difficulty,
no least too dull not to be capable of contributing his share.

The foundations of the technical system were laid every where in the gloom
of general ignorance: when the art of writingwhen printing was unknown, and when the art which embraces includes compasses all
other arts was scarce by few indeed by very who in but those who in
this way or some other way, abused it. Stupidity, under the guidance direction
of interest was sufficient to rear for the rearing of the fabrick: prejudice the offspring of
sinister interest, prejudice with or without its parent, has been, and would
for ever be, sufficient for the preservation upholding of it.

Identifier: | JB/058/235/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-04-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-7
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	235	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18904
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