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OBSTACLES - Why Character of Men as not exclusive in comp of all
improvement

From this representation of Human Nature
it may seem difficult to some to account
for that number of
how that number of useful & salutary regulations laws
for the control of the selfishness of individuals
ever came to make their way.

Two considerations applied to the two species
of laws as distinguished from the extensiveness
of their nature, will do them pretty
well.

Under the direction condition
of Human Nature
supposing it truly
represented, it may


Why not
fatal

First then with regard to Laws of a General
Nature, which affect persons of every description,
we may consider that the moral temperature
of the generality of men is far from being uniform, but that
most men have their alternate lots of probity,
or depravity rather one may venture to say, that the
ground of their composition is probity, chequered
indeed with spots more or less frequent of

perhaps all
except a few common
examples of
probity or depravity




Identifier: | JB/097/078/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 97.

Date_1

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not numbered

Box

097

Main Headings

Folio number

078

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obstacles why character of men not exclusive of all improvement

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001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[partial vryheyt, lion with crown emblem]]]

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jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

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Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

31462

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