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To be copied can keep clear of the penalty of the law,
he is not bound to conform himself to
the directions of the law, but that he may
act in direct violation to them, without
forfeiting his Character of a good man, or
a good Citizen: than which I conceive, nothing
can be of a more dangerous tendency
to Society.

[It is a very false notion to suppose that a submission to the penalty is a full compensation to Society for the breach of a penal Law: — or that obedience to the precept, or submission to the penalty is an indifferent alternative proposed by Society. The Law never intends that penalty shall be inflicted: they are proposed rather as motives to deter, not than not as modes of reparation. Whoever breaks a law is supposed to have done somethin offended gainst the society: to have 2 if submission to penalty rebuilt harm done. The p Law is supposed to The precept of the Law is intended to procure security or addition to the common stock of happiness: the penalty annexed is to secure compliance to the precept. [The coincidence between public & private happiness.] But [submission to the penalty does] in few cases does it repair the injury done; or replace what is taken from the stock of public happiness. —

[Nor will Our author's distinction of cases,
where laws have a greater, or less degree of where laws are, or are not binding upon conscience is
obligation, be of any avail. These This distinctions is equally <add>just as </add> false as the rest of his
are is laid down in terms so unguarded, of his arguments. The distinction
and so vague that our Author he himself It is laid down in terms the most vague & unguarded. He

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Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	036	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c96 / c97 / c98 / c99
Penner	168	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]]
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Notes public	[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	31040
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