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30 Jany 1805
Evidence

That the honest reader, and more especially the reader whose social
affections are yet warm, who whose uncorrupted tender susceptible mind is not yet past the season
of public virtue, whose judgment discernment has not yet been led
captive by the force of professional interest and personal
ambition – may not be altogether without a psychological clue of
the psychological hand to facilitate his travels guide his footsteps through the
labyrinth of error misgovernment about to open to his view, a few leading
points facts shall be just be touched in the character of causes
be just mentioned without being at all insisted upon in
this place. These are:

1. The relative professional interests and situations of the class of
persons in whose operations to whose agency the system of procedure as well
as the greater part of the substantive system of law has its rise,
a set of workmen whose interest it is to make the work
as bad as the ignorance and suf patience of the employers will suffer it to be.

2. The want of responsibility for the In respect of the condition
of the main body of the laws government, the wants utter absence of that responsibility
which attaches upon particular functionaries in respect
of particular branches, such as those of finance, political
economy in general, and the administration of military controul
and other elements of national defence.

3. The total absence of encouragement, coupled with the abundance
of positive discouragement by under which the
most important of arts and sciences and arts labours, in
comparison of all others not excepting the most trifling and indifferent the most trifling not excepted.


Identifier: | JB/058/361/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.

Date_1

1805-01-30

Marginal Summary Numbering

1

Box

058

Main Headings

evidence

Folio number

361

Info in main headings field

evidence

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d7 / e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

19030

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