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CLASSIFICATION a CHARACTER of
CLASS IIId.

consequence, if there should be any cases
where acts in which usually or denominated they cons have
not detract that affect, they shall not
be deemed reckoned as offences; 3dly That where
they are offences he do not insist on that
score alone on their being reputed greater
than the other, nor punished more severly:
fourthly; that this is now a mere speculation Ideal distinction,
obliterated (if ever by there in question have
a separate existence it did exist) by as to
all practical conclusions by the improved System
of [Political] Society.

OFFENCES RADICAL & EXCRETITIOUS.

Offences may be divided into originalRadical being such as are immediately
rooted in the uncultivatedSoil of Human Nature & have parasitical derivative, such as like those vegetables which Botanists have & Spring out
of those ascititious. very expedient which have been planted by the Land of Power
to meliorate & improve it: [like those vegetables which Botanists term
parasitical]

Aug.20th
Decr 27th
9 weeks 3 days

And now if any one chooses to call suppose<add>feign</add> a Law of Nature prohibiting those first, & to stile them [accordingly
Offences against such Law of Nature, he has my free leave for it under
following conditions: First that theyhe conceive of them as being offences merely
in virtue of their detracting from the Sum of & as further than they do so Happiness — Secondly, that in




Identifier: | JB/143/001/002
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143

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punishment

Folio number

001

Info in main headings field

classification a character of class iii

Image

002

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Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[partial britannia with shield motif]]]

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Paper Producer

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Notes public

ID Number

48634

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