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Offences against one's Self. Paederasty

in favour of it) upon the subject without taking notice of that circumstance.

A notion more obvious, but perhaps not much
Whether it hurts population? better founded than the former is that of it's being
prejudicial to population. [+] Pr. Jus. 3 Mr Voltaire appears disposed
inclined in one part of his works to give some
countenance to this opinion. He speaks of it as a
vice which would be [the destruction of, or at least would
be] destructive to the human race if it were general.
Comment s'est-il pu faire qu'un vice destructeur
du genre humain, s'il etait general; qu'un
attentat
infame contre la nation, soit pourtant si
naturel?+
.Questions sur l'Encyclop. Amour Socratique. A little further on speaking of
Sextus Empiricus who would have us believe that the
practise was "recommended" in Persia by the laws,
he insists that the effect of such a law would be to
annihilate that human race if it were literally
observed. "Non, (says he) il n'est pas dans la nature humaine
"de faire une loi qui contredit, & qui outrage la
"nature, une loi qui ancontirait le genre-humain
"si elle etait observee a la lettre." This consequence
however is far enough from being a necessary one.
For a law of the purport he represents to be observed, it
is sufficient that this unprolific kind of venery be practiced:
it is not necessary that it should be practised to
the exclusion of that which is prolific. Now That there
should ever be wanting such a measure of the regular
and ordinary inclination of desire for the proper object as




Identifier: | JB/072/194/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

072

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

194

Info in main headings field

offences against one's self - paederasty

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f13 / f14 / / f16

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23811

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