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23 July 1810 20
Fallacies

Ch. Cause
§. Universities I. Virtue
§. I. Virtue. Universities

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It was not therefore
for nought that
they plant and
immorality in this
shape. Instead of
merited contempt
and abhorrence, they
find in it a
of respect and honour
as well as of wealth

It is not therefore for nothing and to no use that
immorality is cultivated in this shape. It is
In it They behold and find in it not only a mine of wealth,
but a mine of honour respect, which if mens eyes were
open and their understandings judgments unperverted, would
be converted into scorn and well merited] contempt. evaporate and give place to contempt and abhorrence.


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The interest which
each Academic has
in giving currency
to the notice of their
power of converting
wrong into right as
existing in their
hands, extends itself
to his parents and
all his domestic
connections

By thus taking possession of the raw and infant vacant unformed mind
[and steeping it to the lips in perjury] and
whom of the youth whose soul the ambition of his parents has delivered into
their hands, entangling it him at the very moment of
initiation in their nets and baptizing him with
the water and spirit of perjury, they afford
to him to whose his parents to all his connections
the strongest and most efficient interest in giving
credit and support to their authority, to their reputation for learning
and virtue. A perjurer Perjury so long as he stays abides with
them he is at any rate: but a perjurer in
whose instance perjury is or is not accompanied
with guilt [and merited reproach] according as
the power of those suborners by whom it has been forced upon
is or is not regarded as capable of changing its nature washing away guilt
and converting guilt into innocence: if they
have
have this abstersive
power it is an innocent
perjury: if they
have it not a
guilty one.



Identifier: | JB/104/196/001
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Date_1

1810-06-23

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18-19

Box

104

Main Headings

fallacies

Folio number

196

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fallacies

Image

001

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Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c2 / d20

Penner

jeremy bentham

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jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

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ID Number

34167

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