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26 Oct 1802
Letter 2d Supplement
Economy
Introd
Diffused for a separate investigation, this head is discarded
for the present: remains the two heads of reformation
and economy. Remains to be shewn the prospect which
the condition of the Colony according to the latest public accounts
of it affords under these two heads.
Under the head of economy reformation this the matter will be found
arranged under the several subordinate titles following.
General depravity observations indicative of general depravity.
1. General evidence of undiminished depravity—2. Female
depravity. General depravity observations indicative of depravity the prevalence has been
generally in the female part of the population 3
a genre of action that may offend the prevalence
of incendiarism, a genre of crime
of which may by its atrocity be selected as affording
in a more criminal degree an confirmation indication and
confirmation of the general depravity. of the degree of depravity providing the general character 4. Prevalence of
drunkenness: the grand cause of depravity in all its other shapes.
5. Prevalence of sloth another cause as well as effect of depravity
in other shapes: 6. Prodigality Prevalence of and improvidence two other efficient causes of depravity
in such situations. 7. Inefficacy
sufficiency of the all the several powers forces of all sorts commonly employd
employd or to or the character of
as remedies against delinquency in its several
papers and degrees. 8. Prospect of Temporal punishments—temporal/and rewards rewards and punishments—
9. Exertion of public functionaries Increases of a preventive tendency, and in that line
10. Remedies unavailing —Spiritual—Religious instruction odious.
Under the head of economy, so much of the matter
as belongs to it will be found ranged under the following ensuing heads
under the subordinate titles following—
1. Free Settlers necessary: passages opinions respecting the necessity of a population
of this kind to the prosperity of the Colony establishment, and the
possibility of rendering it subservient in any tolerable degree
to its ostensible intended use. 2. Unwillingness to settle—well-grounded True Settlers passages evidencing
the repugnancy on the part of persons of different descriptions
to take either to the taking upon themselves that character condition of life or to the persevering
in it when assumed. 3. Subsistence essentially insecure 3. Causes Circumstances operating as obstacles various causes
to the prosperity of on the part of calamitous destruction, irremediable
causes of destruction of, unavertible mostly threatening the crops and stock at all times.
of free settlers and
thereby at the same
time operating as
perpetual bar to
security in point of
subsistence, and to
any degree existing
beyond what consists the striking off a part and but a loss of part of the total expence of the establishment.
Identifier: | JB/116/054/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
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1802-10-26 |
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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054 |
letter 2d |
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001 |
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text sheet |
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recto |
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jeremy bentham |
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37587 |
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