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Indirect Legislation

Knowledge

men are not the
worse for civilization
But this position these notions I trust will be found as erroneous as
it is uncomfortable The greatest crimes are those, to the commission
of which the least quantity of knowledge is required:
not more than is sure to be possessed by the
most ignorant individual of the most unletter'd
age. Inundation is a worse crime than incendiarism:
incendiarism than murder, in prosecution
of robbery: robbe murder in prosecution of robbery
than robbery alone: robbery than theft: and even
between theft and sharping what little difference
there may be in point of mischievousness
is in favour of the latter. This, lest it should not
be sufficiently apparent to every eye be apparent at first sight, will hereafter
be made appear at large. See Princ. of Legisl.
B.1
And how made appear?
Not by rhetoric and declamation: not by the seduction
of the passions and the abuse of words: but by
a plain arithmetical process: by a sober inventory
of the items of mischief on each side: by a com-
-parison
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Identifier: | JB/087/096/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	096	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27621
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