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1825 Augt 27
Penal Code
5. 9
Thus a sort of arbitrary
power conferred on
the fearless

Thus was, by custom and opinion a
sort of tyranny established: a power altogether
arbitrary, conferred on the fearless—the absolutely
or comparatively fearless—over all such persons
as were either absolutely timid or less fearless
than themselves.

10—
More curious than
useful to enquire
whether the system
was originally preponderantly
beneficial—
certain that at the
present time it is
preponderantly mischievous

More curiosity than use to draw
any comparison between the mischievousness
and the beneficialness of this system of injustice
in the early ages in which it took its use:
as also, supposing it at that time preponderantly
mischievous, whether it would have admitted
of any preponderantly beneficial remedy. What
will be seen to be certain at the present
time, is that it is preponderantly mischievous,
and that it will admit of a preponderantly
beneficial remedy: a remedy, no pure
evil as any remedy can be that requires the
hand of the Law for the application of it.

Identifier: | JB/067/283/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
Date_1	1825-08-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	9-10
Box	067	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	283	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	22116
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