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Indirect Legislation

Knowledge

There Not that there are wanting cases
instances in which men have been celebrated for
their policy in making a monopoly of their
knowledge. To Under this head some might be for
citing the instances of the Priests in Egypt, the
Bramins in Hindostan, and the Jesuits in
Paraguay. But In these occasion instances two observations
may be made. First, that if the conduct
of the persons in question in those instances
has any claim to approbation it can only be
with a view to the interests of those very persons
who were the inventors of this policy: not
with any view to the interests of the bulk of
the community, of the persons upon whom the
policy was put in practice. The people have been
quiet and submissive
enough it is true under
these several theocracies:
but have they been
happy? I should suppose
not: if vain terrors abject
slavery, vain terrors, and
useless obligations, and
tormenting self-denials
are any obstacles to happiness.
Secondly, that
it was not so much by hiding true knowledge
that the end in those instances, such as it was, was
gained; but as by promoting cultivating cherishing prejudice, and propagating
error.

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Identifier: | JB/087/098/001 "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	098	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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