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19 Mar 1802
§ Dispensing Despotism
Official Anarchy 2

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The effect of a
long course of despotism
is to obliterate
the distinction between
the ideas of right
and wrong in the
despotic mind —
his will being itself
regarded as the measure rule
of right

When a man in office, especially a man of a narrow mind
has been engaged by habit in a long course of depraved despotism
and depravity, the idea of what ought to be
his official will becomes at last so intimately associated
with the actual personal will produced by the
fancied interest or convenience of the moment became
so intricately associated that the difference between the
two objects is at length almost wholly obliterated in
his own mind.

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Intrinsic in the
case of Long.
The acts of treachery
suppression of documents
secret tampering
with subordinates
and connivance
at their disobedience
— being done in
execution of the
will of the Confederacy
composed of men
in power — seemed
not wrong to him
——because not punishable.

Hence it is that Mr Long after having given
or been privy to the giving secret counter directions
contrary to the public official directions
given in form under the authority and with the privity
of the Board — had seems at length to have arrived at such
a pitch of insensibility as scarce to be conscious of
any impropriety in the course of treachery, corruption
and anarchy thus pursued. What he did was, as the
instrument and with the consent — tacit and general
at least if not particular and expressed — of the prime
Minister — the chief principal member of the Board. What
was the public official will of the Board, but the virtual
Will of its chief the Minister Chief Lord? What was the secret unofficially declared
will, but the will the equally genuine will of the
same person? Where was the repugnancy between the two
wills? Is there any thing of repugnancy inconsistency or impropriety
in a mans changing his mind under when
circumstances change.

Identifier: | JB/121/256/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-03-19	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-5
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	256	Info in main headings field	Dispensing Despotism Official Anarchy
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	E2 / F1
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	001
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