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19 Aug. 1802
Letter 3d N. S. Wales
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as in that devoted and and combustible spot, on which the destruction of the whole
to population may at any time be the result of a passion an affection
of the kind, antisocial harboured raging though it be but for
a few weeks or a few days, and though it be within the particular insulated
lab limits of a single breast.
Mischievousness is for the most part the result of enmity.
— of both a desperation hostile to the persons individuals or classes to whose person
or property the injury is endeavoured undertaken to be done. But (so
feeble is the influence restriction of the social affections in some minds)
not only in war — but in sport the image of war thinks no
suffering this appetite is seen to pursue its object — regardless
of the poison which in the shape of suffering though
it be human suffering is paid for it. It is by the love in the Bear-garden
and the Bull baiting ground of cruel sports that men train themselves up for the love of
needless war. The same spirit cast of mind to which that in the Bear garden
or the Bull baiting ground could in the agonies of a hunted
animal could be a source of delectation would in the
Cabinet seek its gratification by the maintenance in the flame lighting upon finding some ground upon of an useless
and enle endless war or in Sydney or Parammatta New South Wales in the burning
of the a Church or a Jail with or without the wretches that
were inclosed in it. When mischief is the product visible result it is
often difficult or even impossible to say pronounce with
on any sufficient grounds to which of the two causes, or
if to both in what proportions the effect is to be ascribed. referred.
Identifier: | JB/116/486/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
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1802-08-19 |
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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486 |
letter 3d n. s. wales |
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001 |
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text sheet |
1 |
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recto |
e5 |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]] |
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1800 |
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38019 |
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