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Libel

Shall I avow my errors? weakness? I will — for [perhaps] they may be instructive + + The sacrifice is indeed but slight: for I have erred, as I have erred in common with so many great men, that I have little cause to be ashamed. Is
not till long after I had digested in some tolerable degree the System which such as it
is the reader has before him, I continued to take the picture of the offence which my passions
had traced upon the bubble of my imagination, of the offence for an accurate representation of the mischief.
were over, would I say to myself, still be continually the most atrocious & even improbable calumnies, against the most illustrious & upright <add>character cha </add> urged with more
fabricated with more & & & & & & & industry malicious desperate vehemence, polished with more malicious artifice, curious art or varnished with more abandoned
cunning? Wherever I turned my eyes [or ears] some fresh hit would be received imbibed & kept up
the redness of the colouring —. The still voice of reason suggested from without or
from within, would now & then indeed ever & anon faintly ask, Yet what has all this produced? The
answer was still ready & precipitate — tumult sedition clamor violence, the
of virtue, the triumph of [successful] notice vice, most often whose motive a risque of murder —
At length as the my task advanced towards it's completion, I found insensibly I could
not refuse to myself to give the same deliberate investigation to this subject which
I had already given others so many which merited it less, & in some few [happy] moments

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of tranquillity set [myself] down to analyze the quantity of mischief to compare the <add>at least in some gross manner </add>
of the country State with under the passion of the mischief that of other it's own former situations under a less pressure of the same
kind, & with that of neighboring states under scarce any — to inquire whether the present whether it had no compensating advan
System afforded if examined would a remedy: whether the execution if affected be successful would not be a greater
mischief greater than the difference? To require it last whether if the present system
did not, the nature of things would admit of no compleat remedy — if it did whether
that remedy again might not be worse than the mischief it was to cure.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	070	Main Headings	of laws in general
Folio number	201	Info in main headings field	libel
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23316
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