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C Division of Offences 7

Now then whether negative or positive, this failure
can not but be the result of have for its cause the influence of
some motive. Motives from the influence of which such failure may arise are 1. alluring coercive or 2. alluring This is not the Nor is this the less
true where indolence is the cause of it: for even
indolence is a motive. This motive may be what?
any motive whatsoever: for any motive whatsoever, may by acting in
such a direction become a bad one. Motives acting
in such a direction must either be of a
coercive or an seductive alluring nature. Those may
be termed coercive which consist in the prospect
of evil or what is disagreeable; those seductive which consist in the prospect
of good, or what is agreeable. This evil
may be what? any kind of evil which it is
a man is liable to receive at the hands either
of man or any other agent whatsoever: rational
or irrational; sensitive or insensitive: apprehensions
of any kind of criminal injury: apprehensions
of civil injuries: apprehensions of ill offices:
apprehensions of calamity or disease.

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To co-ercive motives corresponds Pusillanimity Now the giving
way to disposition of mind which a man manifests by giving way to motives of this the co-ercive
nature kind in cases in which he ought not to
give way to them is termed pusillanimity. A failure
therefore on this behalf in point of inclination when

Identifier: | JB/072/073/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	6-7, 9
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	073	Info in main headings field	division of offences against justice
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23690
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