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8 Aug. 1808
To Mallet
(8) Conclusion

He would have individuals not have an nature
He could not have occupied himself in preparing evidence
he would have supposed to be necessary.

12
This is the address
of an Amicus Curæ:
hostility would have
proceeded by publishing
without
warning
,

Notwithstanding any thing that has been said: — or
rather by every thing that has been said — I hope wish
and even flatter myself that in the author of
what has thus been said, the gentleman to whom it is
said will view behold one to whom, without affectation
it may be allowed to stile himself an Amicus
Curæ

13
J.B.'s aim being
to save vexation, his
object has been not
to produce any where
more that was not indispensably
necessary
to the purpose

Had his sentiments and own wishes had any thing from the character
in them of hostility the course taken would have been
materially essentially different from that actually pursued: [+] [+] He would have confined
himself his exertions to the accusation
of individuals; neither more of supposed abuses he would
not have bestowed applied the
so much greater part of them
to the suggestion of mixtures
in the character of remedies
for the prevention of the
supposed abuse in
other instances

instead of warning that he might not strike, he
would have struck at once without warning.
In addition to what seemed necessary on the score of self-preservation against the object and sole ultimate object future superfluous vexation
in his own instance, his object and sole object is to preserve others individuals unknown
from the like vexation in the character situation of Accountants: if, by
any thing that he has said vexation in any shape or degree [+] shall turn out to
have been produced
on the part of other
persons equally known or unknown,
in the situation
of Judges, Mr
Chief Inspector, against
whom it was deemed
necessary to prefer the
charge in question,
in his quality of
subordinate Judge,
the production of any
such vexation was
no otherwise an object
of his intention, than as
an indispensable means step
towards the attainment of
those ultimate ends.

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Whereas Appearances
of propriety
are produced only by his
not knowing them.

It is not because he knows them the gentlemen in question, but because
he does not know them, and for the entire purpose/chance
and hope of seeing them on future occasion in the state of person known of attaining to that advantage — that he takes this
liberty: it is because knowing them to be men, and
knowing nothing of them, but that they are men; he
proceeds thinks and acts upon the supposition of them being
subject to the infirmities universally attached inherent to human
nature. If he thinks and expects little better of them, think of
other men individually human, at any rate he thinks
no worse.

Not then to the main
part it really makes
what his
in view — not
this known
in the present charges
looked at.




Identifier: | JB/122/297/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.

Date_1

1808-08-08

Marginal Summary Numbering

12-13

Box

122

Main Headings

Panopticon

Folio number

297

Info in main headings field

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

C8

Penner

Watermarks

TH 1806

Marginals

Jeremy Bentham

Paper Producer

Andre Morellet

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1806

Notes public

See note 5 to letter 1986, vol. 7

ID Number

001

Box Contents

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