★ 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
4
7. Immutable [Correspondency]
Laws how render'd permanent in absolute minorities. How an intelligent and benevolent prince may bend
his successors? answer , by giving reasons of his laws, & encouraging the liberty of
the press: by differing encreasing the stock of knowledge he will settle
their understanding - [& fix them on his side.] by
gaining on his side the force of the moral
sanction, he will establish a kind of controul
over their affections.
And the happiness is here that this is an
advantage which belongs none but not to a wise &
a good prince can secure acquire to himself, & of which
the will as be considerable only in proportion as
he is wise and good.
Identifier: | JB/100/025/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 100.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
100 |
influence of time and place |
||
025 |
place & time |
||
002 |
|||
text sheet |
2 |
||
recto |
f3 / f4 |
||
jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[britannia with shield motif]]] |
||
32041 |
|||