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28 March 1807

In that same work I have shown or endeavoured to it has been shown by what means causes it is
that the interest of that class on whom the lot of the people depends has
thus been put placed in a state of constant opposition to the interest of the
people.

Man is so constituted – and if it were much otherwise
he could not have existence – that not only are his actions
governed by his interest – but his opinions likewise: insomuch
that whichsoever cast man bribes upon as being conducive to
his interest advantage, he is continually striving and with a degree
of energy which seldom fails of success to look upon as right.

In every country therefore the industry of lawyers has
taking them as a body has naturally constantly and in a manner necessarily been directed to
three objects intimately connected but distinguishable objects –

1. to make render the state of the law in general as bad as possible: as they contriving as possible of the approbation of the people
would suffer them to make it, to persuade the people of its being to bestow upon
it their approbation in as high a degree as good as possible: and at the same time to persuade keep up
and to the same end to keep up in their own minds as
high an opinion as possible of its excellence, to make it
bad as bad as possible – to cause it to be thought good highly of – as highly as possible and to think good highly of it
as highly as possible themselves. Whatever vices it turned with – to the keep
he eyes of the people shut against them – shut as compleatly
as possible: and in the first place and for that purpose, to
shut their own: for no man succeeds as well in deceiving others,
as he who in the first place has succeeded with himself has succeeded in putting deception the deceipt upon himself.

Of In the description picture indication thus given of the situation in which his office or profession
places him has placed him, of the temptation with which it him no individual can find any just cause of complaint.
From the On the contrary he has abundant causes to be satisfied
with it: In it In so far as be it happens to him to have sunk
under the temptation, he reads his apology and excuse: in so far as he has
stood from under it, he reads in it his merit and his glory.

Identifier: | JB/091/056/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1807-03-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	056	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals		Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	29052
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