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25 Jany 1812
Panopt.

The Observation by Mr Bentham. This late Commentator
is myself. The His late Comments are of two dates.
The first Ao 1778 a work published at that time under
the title of A View of the Hard Labour Bill. The other
a work printed first in Dublin 17 Ao 1791, under direction
of your the Irish Government: then reprinted in London in the same
year with two Postscripts each of them larger than the
original work forming all together the work to which
the ensuing sheets are destined to serve in an Appendix.
In both of these works at those two distinct points of time an examination, nor that let the reader say whether in
either instance a light or loom are it rests with the
reader to jud
any is bestowed upon that same Act.
As to the epithet lightly treated not to say ridiculed
if by the levity is be understood what seems intended to be
insinuated the absence of close and considered reasoning on this point
here too I am put myself in the judgment of the public and the officers.
If instead of ridiculed the Barracks , had been made ridiculous I should not have it might the observe assert
the position might perhaps have passed uncontroverted.
Be the nature of the subject and of the position what it
may, if upon any incongruity that happens to be observable
in it or light that happens at the some same time
to be clear and strong be made to shine, a the colour
of ridicule is apt to be reflected upon by it, is apt
to be of that sort which perhaps without much impropriety
but surely without reproach to the Commentator, may
bear admitt the name of ridicule. In Gould's elements at
least may be seen a work which even by the gravity of the
worthy Baronet would not be taxed, it is supposed with any
unbecoming levity. Yet where the mode of demonstration employed
by him is that which has been distinguished by the appellation of
demonstrated from absurdism
he who to whom it should
seem that the absurdity
of the disproved position
had been shown to be so
conspicuous manifest as to give
it to an ear of ridicule
might venture to say as
much without much apprehension of being himself charged with saying what was ridiculous.


Identifier: | JB/118/285/001
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1812-01-25

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118

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panopticon

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285

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panopt.

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001

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text sheet

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1

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recto

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d2 / e2

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jeremy bentham

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39339

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