JB/072/066/001

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C 1. Of Idleness.

With regard to his own property a man may offend,
that is he may act counter to his own interest in either of two
ways; 1. By parting with his property too fast, when
he has property, this is called Prodigality: or by omitting
to get by industrious means what is necessary
for his support when he has none. This goes by the
name of Idleness.

The mischief of idleness is the tendency
which it has to give birth to all the crimes of indigence.
For no man suffers himself to perish through
Idleness. Subsistence therefore he will certainly provide
for himself if it be is in his power. But this subsistence,
by the supposition, is not the fruit of his own
labour. It must therefore be the fruit of the labour
of others. If obtained from others, it must be obtained either
with their consent or without it. If with their
consent being obtained without an equivalent it is
extorted from their benevolence. Their inducement
instead of being of a pleasurable is of a painful nature:
instead of being the pleasure of acquisition it is

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	066	Info in main headings field	of idleness
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] pro patria [with motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23683
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