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1818 June 30
Penal Code

Great will be the a mans eagerness to come forward
with this plan a plan of this sort if it so it has but any the least prospect
of being received. It serves him at the same time as a
sort of list and proof of virtue. While in part truth he is
exhibiting as conclusive a proof as in the way of circumstantial
evidence can be exhibited of consummate depravity,
he is exhibiting what he is flattering himself
with the hope of seeing received in the character of a
proof and that a conclusive one of the opposite excellence.

This sensibility which is so acute in men, is in
other words a nice sense of honour: and the more
the sense of honour the more consummate the virtue
proved by it. The more perfectly free from all spots
a man's character is, the smaller the spot by which
in his breast a given quantity of suffering is produced,
the greater the degree of suffering which in his breast would
be produced by a spot by which in a breast of ordinary
mind no sensation whatever would be produced.

But that which in this case is really proved,
by the alle proved by the use here made of the plea pleaded
viz the quantity severity of the punishment called for, is the
vindictiveness of the but by the vindictiveness
as what is proved is the his depravity: that is not proved but disproved
in the opposite excellence.

Identifier: | JB/067/087/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
Date_1	1818-06-30	Marginal Summary Numbering	70-72
Box	067	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	087	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1816
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1816
Notes public		ID Number	21920
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