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[Indirect Legislation]

Religion

of this indulgence will seek and will obtain indulgence
for falsehoods of a less venial nature. Men in short
will be distracted in their judgments, they will not
know what falsehoods to excuse pardon and or what to condemn;
and upon the whole it is evident that the
general sum of disappr indignation censure pronounced in the community
must [at the long run] be much weaken'd,
and
power with which the moral sanction would otherwise act
upon falsehood in general must be much abated.
Now in proportion to the sensibility of men to the
force of the moral sanction is the general sum
of virtue probity in a community: in proportion then as to diminish that
sensibility is therefore to diminish diminished the stock
of national virtue is diminished. To diminish the stock of this sensibility national
virtue is therefore to undermine When The Legislator then when diminishes The legisator
then [in proportion as] when ever he lends his aid to
the enforcing of the reception of these opinions dogmas
becomes himself the arch-corrupter the poisoner-general of the understandings of the nation of the public
national public morals. He sacrifices a far more steady his steadiest and best
support and powerful support ally for the chance of obtaining
a variable and precarious one. one the assistance of a power which as we shall see presently is
[an ally of variable power force and precarious fidelity.]

2 In the mean time as it is the peculiar property
of this tribunal for the same person to be at the same
time Judge and Executioner, so long as there are any
of its members whose suffrages are against a man
he is thereby subjected to a proportionable degree of punishment.
If his sensibility So long as he continues sensible to the force of this sanction is
not destroyd, he suffers is reduced to a state of suffering and this suffering is an evil. If he grows callous,
the evil takes another shape: the lik most powerful of the tutelary
tutelary motives [loses ] has lost
it's hold upon on him
and he becomes a
dangerous incubus of
the community.

Identifier: | JB/087/021/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	7
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	021	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	003	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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