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1825. Aug 27
Penal Code
4
1825 April 9 6
One man kicks or
spits upon another
— Spectators apply contempt
to the sufferer — approbation
or indifference
to the assailant

One man is seen giving a kick to or spitting
in the face of another. In either case, without
knowing any thing more of the intercourse
which has had place between them, a member
of spectators, seeing an recurrence of this sort in
the street, will of course, without hesitation or
reflection, under the impulse of a power, to the
nature and existence of which, they are insensible,
apply their disapprobation in the shape of contempt
to the sufferer; regarding the assailant with eyes
either of approbation or indifference.

7
If wrongee suffers
patiently — contempt
increases

If, by the persons by whom the injury is received,
patience and resignation be manifested,
the disapprobation — the contempt — far from being
lessened, will in this case be rather increased.

8
Reason — the opinion
took its rise in
barbarous ages

The reason, is that in the barbarous ages
in which this perverse opinion took its rise,
fearlessness of death and wounds being a quality so
universally necessary to public defence and self
defence, was the one, principally not to say exclusively
in honour: the one, without which no
respect food reputation could be obtained or retained. If then the
person thus dealt with were seen engaged at the
time in a conflict with the assailant, no inference
with regard to fearlessness, as above, could be deduced
in the case of the one, any more than of the
other: whereas, if, while the one was seen inflicting
the wrong, the other was seen patiently submitting
to it, the inference would be obvious: on
the part of the wrong doer, fearlessness; on the party
wronged, timidity; incapacity of contributing to
his own or the public defence.

why not fearlessness
of wounds — indifference
to pain?

Thus

Identifier: | JB/067/282/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
Date_1	1825-08-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-8
Box	067	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	282	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections	john neal	Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	22115
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