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16 May 1818
Fallacies & Codification Gradual Change

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Graduality
Ch. Small Preachers

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No man who can find any thing to say that bears any appropriate
relation to the subject but will to his vacuity
by coming not with observations that have an equal relation to all subjects.

Change ought to be
gradual — a fallacy

But all changes ought to be gradual: and a change
such as that proposed would not be gradual

All changes ought to be gradual! It were too
much to say that on no occasion ought can the observation
have its be consistent with reason just and useful and utility, public good and
applicable with advantage. But what is not too much
to say is that it is much more congenial to its nature,
to be the resource of improbity or the effusion of self-
conscious imbecillity, addressing itself to kindred timidity and
ignorance.

All change ought to be gradual! it is thus
among public men, the weakest and most ignorant minds
too weak to cover their imbecillity with the mask of prudence.

All change ought to be gradual! Resting here, it is
means nothing: it is too general, too vague by far
to mean any thing at all — either truth or falshood

All change ought to be gradual! If this wisdom
what is the reasoning, when it comes to have any?

Remove evils evil, if you can't help it — but as few little of it as
you can — always taking care to leave some of them it,
as many much as possible unremoved.

Of the individuals that ought and might be made
to know the law they are punished for not knowing, are there
99 in every hundred 99 that are not allowed to know them. Allow
this liberty first the first five — per year to come out of the 99, then to another
and then again to another: and so on proceeding by slow
but sure degrees for a century at the end of which if this
part of your duty be half performed let the people think themselves
but too well off.

Identifier: | JB/104/381/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1811-05-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	381	Info in main headings field	fallacies & codification gradual kings
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	34352
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