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5 Bicetre Proposals Objections

3. The person to be thus trusted, a stran
foreigner — Yes a foreigner: — and what
ag is the informer: that he can would not be trust worthy
that depends not upon the nation he was born in
but
but upon the individual: — upon the nature and quantum of the security
that ought to be required, and his capacity of affording
it: point in respect to which enough has
been said already. Is it in the mere accident
of the plan of birth that we are to look for the objection? —
Howsoever it might be elsewhere, surely not in France
surely not in that Assembly whose liberality magnanimity <add>enlarged </add> and
conceptions and expanded heart and extended views
benevolence philanthropy scarce knows of a difference between among
nations. If to be a foreigner were to be an object
of suspicion, the suspicion objection will at any rate not
be appear the stronger when levelled against a citizen
of that nation which gave birth to the Cooks and
the Howards and to which the Committee of
Mendacity have with so generous liberal a
put their countrymen constituents and the assembly to look for patterns of
perfection as far as then discovered in this line.
You who so lately called upon the English of your
own accord to save you from the avenging sword
of




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Box

117

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

020

Info in main headings field

bicetre proposal

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / f6 / f7 / f8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

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Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

38637

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