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the second the a scourge of to Flanders, Mary of the 1st
of to England, and Charles the ninth of to France.

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The effects of
superstition must
be taken into the
account of as well
as those of laudable
religion

The common solution of these difficulties is to place
all the good to the account of religion, and all the
mischief to the account of superstition. But this
distinction is a merely verbal one: the thing itself
is not alter'd by a man's choosing making use of the word superstition
religion to characterize it by in one case and religion
in the other. The cause of the effects in question,
the motive which acts upon the mind is in
both cases one and the same: it is the hope fear
of evil or the hope of good at the hands of a being supposed conceived to be
all-powerful but acknowledged
to be unknown
an all-
powerful and but unknown being. [This is so true that
in speaking of the conduct of the same man person on the
same occasion activated confessedly by the same
motive, one man shall attribute it to religion
while another attributes it to superstition.]

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—the bad effects
as well as the
good

Another observation [which is wont to be made on this occasion]
as trivial as the former and as weak as it is trivial
is that it is unfair to argue against the use of a
thing from the abuse; and that the best thin instruments
are those which are most mischievous when
abused.The futility of this
argument may presently
be perceived.
Now The goo bad good effects of a thing are what are
able
is meant by the abuse use of it: the good bad what are
meant by the use abuse : to say then that an you are not to argue
from

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	12-13
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	025	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22 / f23 / f24
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	27550
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