JB/087/021/001

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-clares that he believes so and so when it is no
such thing. In the first case comes the evil of punishment;
which being by the supposition uncompensated
by any advantage is so much pure mischief
the work of tyranny and persecution: a mischief
the same in kind but much greater in degree
than if the same suffering instead of being administer'd
by the
hand of the magistrate
were administer'd by
the hand of any unlicensed malefactor. In the latter
case the mischief does not obtain is of a more remoter
remote and less perceptible but little less baneful
kind. The subject has been suborned to suffer commit a
falsehood: and it is the legislator who has suborned
him. But falsehood which is the great grand instrument
of iniquity and which can never unless
in a very particular cases by some very extraordinary accident be requisite
for the purpose of doing good is on that account
very generally and strongly reprobated by the moral
sanction; and the more so the more publickly
and

NOTE

more strictly to the province of experience; recollect whether
if upon any occasion in the younger part of your
life you have happened to differ with a parent parent or
preceptor about the truth of some proposition which
you have conceived to lie within your own knowledge,
it has happen'd to you to have been chastized
in order to oblige you to hold a different language unsay what you had been maintaining? : if so,
whatever language you
may have been compelled
to hold,
did it ever happen that such chastizement produced introduced any
real change into your internal sentiments?

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	7
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	021	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27546
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