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4 March 1812
Panopticon – Defence

Such then are two of the about 8 articles of charge on which the
sentence of expulsion pronounced against Mr Bentham are
grounded – viz. that under his management the prisoners
would not have good provisions property quality of goodness would
not with truth be always producible of the provisions and necessaries
supplied by him – and that the property quality of improper
luxuriousness would sometimes be producable of them.

Pressed Between these two abstract qualities as between the checks of a would it be possible
for any man breathing so to conduct himself as not to be
assured of condemnation at the hands of a man in authority
in whose sight he had not the good fortune it had not been his fortune to find favour?
And can anyone is it possible for a man be really serious and sincere in
that to the word luxury in this plan, and to speak of
any other any determinate signification has been afforded?
that it means anything but that sort of supply which on
the alledged ground of its affording to the gratification which it is
not agreable to the man in power that the man subject to
power should enjoy, he chooses to pass condemnation upon?

When this charge about luxury was a surely that
article by which the at his own solicitation stands
absolutely precluded from suffering the introduction of any fermented
liquor was not in remembrance: and when this
chief of all the articles in Pandora's box is
excluded, from what other sort of article under the denomination of
luxury can any and what real mischief be apprehended.
What is man's luxury be when it means anything but an instrument
if that whatever degree of gratification is regarded as extraordinary –
and what is luxury or gratification if it be not relative –
relative to the particular individual with reference to whom
it is brought to view? Once in three matter did the was the abovementioned
Gardener in the habit of tasting eating a dinner butchers meat. In the
interval between one such diner and another would not the very
worst meat that could find purchases in the market be have been to him
an article of luxury.

Identifier: | JB/118/312/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-03-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	312	Info in main headings field	panopticon defence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d6 / e6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	<…> co
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39366
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