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19 Aug. 1802
Lettr 3dN. S. Wales
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Prodictive Labour is the natural and in general unless by accident the only
beneficial or even innocent means of medium through which the
instruments of enjoyment can be acquired. The appetite
for them bring would up to at a certain pitch of intensity whatever can [that
disposition which] prevents the a man's existence from running in the
lawful channel drives them by a necessary consequence
into the an unlawful one. Hence it is, that the very same
degree of sloth, aversion to labour which on the part of a man possessed of
property inefficient incurs sufficient commensurate<add>adequate</add> to his wants, can amounts not<add>can not justly</add> is not
so much even be<add>be accounted</add> as a vice because, on the on the part of another man, in where
means are deficient, there is a deficiency a perpetual an inexhaustible source of the most pernicious error.

[From the same narrative of evidence that by which the strength
of the appetites self-regarded that incite to rapacity is exemplified and established
the weakness of the whole mass of force — the influence <add>weakness</add>
of the several affections — the fear of the law — the fear of
religion — the fear of public opinion (not forgetting to mention the fear the pain of sympathy excited by the prospect of human suffering of the
immediate painful natural suffering painful consequences that tread so closely at the heels
of imprudent graf gratification) are demonstrated evidenced by exam
proofs equally striking convincing.]

The propensity This mischievousness to mischief, though it is human suffering
is the ultimate and direct object of it, instead of being
as in the case of rapacity the mere collateral and intended
result is on many various accounts a less formidable enemy
to human happiness. It is however in no situation an
enemy to be despised: more particularly in a situation where
as

Identifier: | JB/116/485/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-08-19	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	485	Info in main headings field	letter 3d n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	38018
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