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Feby 1809 Peines

This has been seen a sermon exactly in the state of
Dr Paley's: without any differences, unless it be that of a
still stronger appearance characteristic of being in earnest. In design...
but away with the inquiry - it is neither capable of being ascertained
nor worth the trouble ascertaining:- introducing, what?
to remove the disease mischief? - No - not an atom of it. <add>not a hairs breadth</add> but to confirm and
aggravate it.

1.It tends to produce This it does in several ways — to understand create presume and confirm in the minds of
1. It gives the unharmed - and among them the legislature
at large that the writing <add>to understand</add> whatever mischief has place, results
from not from the introduction of a principle radically
vitious and flagitious, but from the unguarded application and over extensive
of a principle in itself rational and favourable to justice:-
as who should say as of a physician of the body natural should take up the and say - The foul disease is a habit of body
which every man who would live in good health might to
make it his business to contract. But should by "strictness"
or "overeasiness" or "nicety" should it happen to him to let
it run on till his nose or any other part drops off, it will
in that case have grown to be " a blemish and inconvenience'.
then, when the time is come for pathos and for purity - adding and concluding
- and his physician will be "reproached", and
his "God dishonoured" by it.

2. It tends to propagate a corruption notion or at least a way
of speaking — which by them to whom political corruption in any shape
is a source of advantage a profit in any shape is so with so much facility
and complacency taken up - viz. that when a corrupt
practice has taken out established in the system, the way to rid the
system of the mischief of it is - not to eradicate root it out it, but
to let it stay in and preach at it: as if when a patient who, by
following such advice as the men of law has never used & give
to the legislator, found his nose in danger, the proper course forremedy him him to take were declared to be - not a course of mercury, or whatsoever substitute every eligible specific may have beenbe in use but a chapter out of Dr Sardinier or a few pages page or of Fracassoricis

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Date_1	1809-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	11-12
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	253	Info in main headings field	peines
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e52
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	pr1	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	35244
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