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1819 Dec. 29

Radicalism not dangerous

II. Nature of the case
3 §.7. VII Other spoliation impossible

Let us see then whether to the multitude judging each for himself,
it be possible that any other imaginable plan should afford a prospect of any better promise than the and those remaining two imaginable those which have been brought
to view and disposed of:
this being at the same time
understood, that there
remains not any other
the effect of which would
not be the affe narrowing
the number of the
sharers.
plan but that the effect of which would not be In the case where all individuals without exception are proposed not to be sharer or sharers what 34
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would set up in
Of itself, opposition of the
be constituted authorities
would be sufficient
To that would be added
the force of every individual
excluded.
The fewer the executed
the less the saving:
the more, the greater
the resistance
to an amount more determinate, conceivable and clearly expressible
than any other — we have seen what the bars ab are that
oppose themselves. But to any plan from the by benefit of which, which any
individuals of any description should stand excluded: the authors exclusiveshould be included from participatory here could
would oppose be opposing an additional obstacle. In any vitro which could be taken
of the case by any the most sanguine imagination, the the
obstacles that could not be opposed to the plan. by the opposition that
not made by all the constituted authorities will
their adherents, cost could not but present themselves
as sufficiently formidable. But, on this supposition of a
scheme of narrowed by exclusion, every individual excluded
would add to the dreable of the obstacles that oppose themselves
of all comprehensive benefit. advantage. Here then comes the<add>a dilemma,</add> Let the excluded
be few, the saving by the exclusion would will be so
much the less. Let the excluded be many, the
force of resistance. the reachingresisting in addition added to that of of the
constituted authorities will be so mor much the greater.

Identifier: | JB/137/124/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1819-12-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	4
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	124	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1816]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1816
Notes public		ID Number	46841
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