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offence but against the offender. Permanent considerations
give way to temporary; general to
individual.: the law is an act of resentment
not of policy: of proscription not of justice.

The misfortune is that among the herd
of legislators the nature of mischievousness mischievousness
of crimes would either not be seen or not
attended to but at the moment when it is
severely felt, would not be provided against
at all, if not provided against at that time:
they would remain blind and motionless did
not the force of sudden temporary terrors and resentments come now
and then upon the stage, to sharpen their sight,
and quicken their activity. [It requires the rigour
and discernment resolution
of a Catherine or a
Frederic to sit down unruffled to the great
work of legislation [+], [+] to circumscribe as it were with a compass the circle of human actions and to make the chain of causes to apply the compass of forethought to the circle of human action.
and effects obedient to their sceptre.] The vulgar
among legislators follow events, the wise and few attempt to
active lead them. The herd of legislators, slaves
to the passions of the moment, sleep at one time
under the pressure of public mischiefs, run amack amuck
as then another like asiatic soldiery
borrowing a short lived spurt vigour from a dose of
opium

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opium. Assaulted on every side by unexpected
provocations, they thrust this way and that
way, without any idea of that species of warfare
insures success by a system of comprehensive
and preconcerted arrangements. Such alas! has
hitherto been the conduct of the British Senate
legislators of a people who possessing nation which exults in an unexampled
measure of felicity due to courage valour rather than to prudence, wisdom, to the people rather than to their leaders, [+ [+] to the/del> situation rather than [to policy] it's inhabitants to fortune rather than
to design policy: [to whose jurisprudence everything that savours of order, method,
comprehension, forecast brevity conciseness, perspicuity, dignity
and energy are total strangers.] is alike unknown It requires
the providence and force of mind that mark
a Frederic and a Catherine and a Frederic
to sit down unruffled to the great work of
legislation, to circumscribe as it were with a
compass the circle sphere of human actions, and to
make the chain of causes and effects obedient
to their sceptre.

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Folio number	074	Info in main headings field	composition
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
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