JB/067/170/001

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1827 May 14
Penal Code

N.B. Of all these several instruments those exhibited in the
character of instruments of evil – of evil in the shape of delinquency
– in a word of delinquency, not one of them is there that is absolutely
incapable of being employed, and operating, as an instrument of good.

In particular coercion physical in both its modes forms and coercion
mental in both its forms are instruments necessary and
indispensable instruments in the hand of the legislator.

So likewise is or say allurement – application made
of the matter of good in the character of matters of reward to the purposes
of giving direction to human conduct.

Nor yet is deception – nor therefore any or few abovementioned
instruments of deception altogether altogether necessarily of being made to produce
such quantity of good as in the individual instance in question shall be preponderant over the quantity
of good evil produced by it: witness the case where it is employed
applied to the purpose of preventing an incidence from
or a criminal from the committing a mischievious act.

But in every case in which no such extraordinary
good is produced by the use of those instruments they are instruments
of evil, and except as above to the production of evil in every shape they are in
by the nature of things an eminent and preeminent degree adequate.

Proportionate to the degree of their tendency thus to operate
is the intensity of the attention and endeavour which it belongs becomes to the legislator to
direct to the prevention of them.

Inconsiderable will be found to be the event of which misrepresentation is liable to become the instrument, in comparison of that which misrepresentation is liable to become the instrument.

Uses of the quantity of matter belonging to the hand These are the assisting the furnishing such lights and information
and lights as may afford the legislator in his endeavours to
the use of minimize the number of the instances in which those instruments
are employed: employed in such measure as to become
producible of such their intended mischievous effect.

Identifier: | JB/067/170/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
Date_1	1827-05-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	13-17
Box	067	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	170	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / d6 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	22003
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