JB/087/022/002

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rate have blunted rooted out and destroyd eradicated those refined nice
perceptions by which the [as yet] unbiassed mind
is is put upon it's guard against the first approach of sophistry.
He must be habituated in and practiced in all the arts
of judging ill: he must have acquired a readiness dexterity of rejecting evidence without reason,
of in giving an undue weight to evidence of in determining against evidence, of in hearing only on one
side: in a word he must have made himself a
wat weak man in order to avoid being an unhappy
one.

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— by remunerative
methods
—by temporal rewards
1. it is expensive
2. By It producesing falshood as when
penal methods are
employ'd
3. Which depraves
the character more.

Lastly, if instead of punishment reward is employd
to enforce the reception of an article of faith
the shape of the mischief is alter'd indeed, but the mischief itself is not removed. In
the first place to apply reward to all all who
comply without distinction has been shewn to be impossible:
in the essence of it it can never be bestow'd but upon a favoured on a few.
It may be bestowd upon those few who are employ'd
to teach, but it can never be bestowd upon the many
who are required to believe. In the next place reward
is coupled with hardship in its very essence: to find
reward for one man you must impose hardship
on another, just as in order to give one man a right you
must impose on another man a duty. Let it come
in what shape it will, in that of wealth, in that of
honour in that of privilege, to give to you must
take from Paul before you can give to Peter. [Upon
the

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	8
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	022	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
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	27547
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