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Paederasty Inf'

Treason p. 13. Bermondus a Canonist cited with approbation by
the two great English Lawyers abovementioned Judge Fortescue and Chancellor Macclesfield says
that in this point of view it is worse than murder.
Whether it hurts population - Bermondus
For a murderer puts to death destroys but one man, whereas
a Sodomite puts to death every man that lives. "Apad
"Deum tote peccatum reputatur gravius homicidio,
"eo quia homicida unum hominem tantum,
"Sodomita cutem totum genus humanum delere
"videtur". This he says assures us is God's way of taking
the account. If this be the case it must be confessed
that God's arithmetic is a little different from man's
arithmetic.

The author of the article Sodomy in the Law abridgment
that is called goes by the name of Bacon's
is more moderate [in his calculations]. "If any crime"
says he "deserve to be punished in a more exemplary manner
"this does. Other crimes are prejudicial to society;
"but this strikes at the being thereof: for it is seldom
"known that a person who has been once guilty of
so unnatural an abuse of his generative facilities,
"has afterwards a proper regard for women."

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	187	Info in main headings field	paederasty
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield emblem]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	23804
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