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1818 June 29
Penal Code

Defences against the demand of liberty. 1 alledged dangerousness
or alledged purity of the . Answer proved impossible Example Ch. §.
The Matters of political and religious sanction both hate the moral:
the moral short of perfection as it is is always amendable and .
Rashness most exercisable when a ruler is the object defamed: because
misconduct in every shape is in his instance always probable.

In support of the alledged necessity of keeping forever
suppressed all discourse tending to impute imperfection to the
ruling few two plans are want to be urged adduced and relied upon with
confidence.

1. The principal one is the alledged dangerousness,
the quantity of mischief evil liable and likely to be produced
if with impunity misconduct in any shape were suffered to
be imputed to rulers.

Of this evil the particular nature is never specified:
but the insinuation commonly is, that it is
that sort and degree of evil which has the subversion
of the government in question for its cause: and to the
amount of evil liable and likely to be produced by this
cause it is always intimated that there are no bounds.
No government in which this licence were admitted, could
support itself.

Answer – From this the alledged dangerousness of this liberty
no argument can be drawn for the suppression of it
any further on any other supposition than the danger from the non-suppression continuance
of it is greater than that from the suppression of it.

Danger is probability of actual mischief. Look into the matter with an ever so little attentive eye
you will see that from the non existence of this liberty and thence from
the suppression of it the mischief is and ever has been
extreme: the danger purely ideal, since no where has it ever for it never has been realised
and exemplified.

Identifier: | JB/067/075/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
Date_1	1818-06-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	38-40
Box	067	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	075	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c8 / c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1816
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections	george bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1816
Notes public		ID Number	21908
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