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GRADUATION

A great impediment to a just graduation of offences that process so important to this
is the disingenuity (of common-place moralizers which men have got into the habit) of employing
offence in it's turn up to & sometimes above the level of the greatest. Nothing at all is gained by this upon the whole, since
if the offence in question is raised up exalted the others to which it is compared are in proportion as much relatively as much ripped
down in proportion – And the mischief of it is this inconvenience results from it that, especially when real mischief
of the offence lies a little hidden within the surface, that persons interested
to find it small diminish it, observing without difficulty that a part of what is said is false, find means to persuade
themselves & others that to place the whole of what is said or can be said to the account
of aggravation – How often for instance have I not heard it said that Adultery
is worse than Murder & how why is it said? precisely for the very reason
that it is not worse, as people very well perceive when they cool to contemplate
both at an equal distance:

Try the converse of the proposition – if it was worse nothing would be said about the matter
as we may easily perceive know by taking the converse of the proposition for an example.
No declaimer in Laranguitis, against Murder ever thought of insisting that it was
worse than Adultery.⊞ ⊞ Why? because it is so true &
so plain, that nobody takes
the pains to say it. Swearing and above that Blasphemy is worse than Murder
why? because the latter is an offence against Man only, but the two former
offences against God. Happily They are few so ignorant in this Country as not to
perceive however confusedly that the Preacher or Essayist who argues in this
manner (thinks no such thing himself, &) is only imposing on them. The comparison accordingly goes for any Otherwise
this might be the anyone's reasoning – Almost all men whom I see around me
(and this is known to be the case among the common people) profane are more or less guilty of
profane Oaths – Yet of those many must be saved – since those have either
none or a very poor chance of being saved who are not Christians; & of them
again, who are not any persuasion: 'tis out of those therefore that the happy
are after all to be chosen; since otherwise Heaven would must be unpeopled. This offence

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	067	Main Headings	law in general
Folio number	020	Info in main headings field	graduation
Image	002	Titles	[[titles::book [ ] offences in general / graduation]]
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::j honig & zoonen [lion with vryheyt motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	21853
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