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26 June 1802 N.S. Wales

Is religion good for anything, or good for nothing?
and in particular more particularly to souls persons of that description and in that place?
This is what I should be glad to hear from any body
that will tell me: but most of all from Lord Belgrave from Lord Viscount
Belgrave at whose instance, and for whose accommodation this perpetual nursery and hotbed
of irreligion—this state without Church—this system of parishes
of parishes
to priestsof necessarily irreligious establishments has been fostered and
kept up without priests—this self-propagating ever-pullulating churches—
of effectually irreligious establishments—has been kept up.
Morality In addressing myself to Lord Belgrave among a class of people
in whom the demand for religious restraint, for restraint from every
imaginable source is the greatest it is religion Your Lordship will be pleased to observe
not morality that I speak of. Morality—rotten morality
—as I have sometimes heard it called when
separated or contradistinguished from religion) I fear to pass over
insist upon, as a subordinate point lest it be not worth his notice.[+] To simplify the
question and accommodate
myself to his
Lordships conception
as much as possible
in the terms of it. It is
to religion pure of all such dross matter of inferior value
that I would wish his answer to apply: and in whatever
language may happen to be most familiar to him,
I shall be happy to receive it.

What he talks of and worships in high places which he is undermining and opposing
it in cloud whispers sacred whispers/places—I others by this time, had he
suffered me them should would have been practising. But little as he may
have thought it—sweet as hitherto has been his slumber
Your Lordship may inform him. the day
will come when it will be seen which is strongest—
the of the law—or the little finger of a
Lord Belgrave.

Great events from little causes; such is the title
of a little book, not quite so interesting as its title. Great
events from little causes: such is the history of the greatest
motives, when in the hands of little men, turned into great
men by their places, turned converted by office into great ones.

Identifier: | JB/116/254/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-06-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	254	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37787
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