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2 Jan 1809 Peines Not disention but this is the law of tyrants

3 7 Feb. 1809. Omitt this, or alter it. Juryman's perjury is
unnecessary: since the same thing if thought fit might be done by
recommending for pardon which is the lesser univerally

But, says somebody, why thus indescriminably, and
vilumently and implacably censorial: the alternative has
but two branches: destroy in obedience or save in disobedience to the law one or other can not but be embraced:
and let a man embrace which he will, your censure is prepared for him he stakes himself upon
your censure. Here according to you are two great evils:
one or other of which can not but be produced: till as then
if you mean well. if you mean aim at any thing better than the
wretched pleasure of giving vent to ill will, till in which
in your estimate is the least. of the two opposite courses
which - if you yourself being in one of these statutes were obliged
to act in it, -which is the course you would pursue.

My answer is - in respect of what is thus done so far from being bodled pointed
at every oneman, my reason is not pointed at any one man.
So Against the system it is that my censure is pointed, not toagainst any
one [+] who involuntarily acts under it. What I should do were it my [+] but in so far as he contentedly acts under it
misfortune to find myself in either station - that of Judge
or that of Jury man, it is needless to enquire - It is Among
my comforts is the reflection that I am out of the
mask of both. Among my comforts is the reflection
that to no such melancholy option am I expend as that
between perjury or subornation if perjury
or subservience to compleatly in an act of <add>cooperation in the work of</add> useless and pernicious barbarity on the
other.

Against the system it is that censure is pointed -
not against any one who, either in one way or the other [+] acts under it: against a system [+] voluntarily and contentedly acts under it.
of constant and universal remediless atrocity, a system under which it
is impossible to do right.

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Identifier: | JB/107/266/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
Date_1	1809-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	266	Info in main headings field	peines
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e65
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	35257
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