★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
To be copied language of both is the same: do this: avoid
that, and such or such good shall accrue to You: but
if You neglect to do the one, or avoid the other,
such or such evil shall accrue to You. As the method
which all Legislators use is thus in this respect precisely
the same, so the sensations they excite, must
act precisely in the same manner upon us,
however the effect they produce, may differ
in it's force, or degree: and if Conscience has
any thing to do in one instance, it must
have precisely the same office in the other.
And therefore again either no law is the law which is not binding
upon the Conscience, or every law is so.is not binding at all.
When our author says, that if we suppose Vol. 1. P. 58 What our <add>I do not know the Author means by that fanciful</add>
notion of ensnaring our consciences by human <add>the</add>
96
Identifier: | JB/096/036/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
096 |
comment on the commentaries |
||
036 |
|||
001 |
|||
collectanea |
4 |
||
recto |
c96 / c97 / c98 / c99 |
||
168 |
[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]] |
||
[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]] |
31040 |
||