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Note to Rule 12. p.6.

The time quantity of space time that might be spared – as in the choice of diet – cloathing afforded
on Sundays would suffice for no inconsiderable course reckoning from infancy to the age of emancipation
of useful study intellectual achievements in which the
profit-seeking employment – every thing in a word
understanding has a share. In studies axiom that lies open to choice. As to a new religion, or a new
system of law or a plan for the abolition of all religion, or
of the of all law nothing of this sort. Works will be
In studies the (as in chatting and worse
expected I hope – at least in the way of parenthesis, in
a system of management. and the other
thing) utility not fashion should be the guide to both

In the education of the affluent, usage – aboriginal usage – is still the guide, though
it is beginning to lose somewhat of its influence. What
has been all along taught learnt continues to be taught learnt: – not
to gain the advantage of possessing it – but to avoid the
shame of not possessing it. It is for this cause that Words are preferred to things:
and are among words, dead languages to living ones. Poetry, i: that is
misrepresentation in metre – Oratory i: that is misrepresentation
for the purpose of inflammation – Nonsense and quibbles
upon words, under the name of philosophy – History,
the history of times to which our own are happily
as unlike as possible – Pictures of manners of which it is an advantage to be ignorant – all this be driven by into the
into the tender mind through the medium of a dead language

Poetry, which is of use to nobody any farther than as
it gives pleasure – – Philosophy and exhibitions
of manners worse than useless – Oratory and History.
Of use to him but those who were intended for politicians
all this, extracted by hard labour from languages which nobody speaks – driven into the tender mind through the medium of a dead language –
Such such are the acquirements, of which in the education what
is termed a liberal education, is indispensably; and almost
exclusively, composed. This is what must be learnt
at any rate – and a dozen or a score of the best years
of life are not thought too much to sacrifice to it. What is of real
use the of an acquaintance with the realities that are surround us is regarded as a sort of surplusage, a sprinkling of which may or
may not
be thrown in or not, as it may and for
which a few months – or weeks – or days – are as much
as can be spared. – Reasons for this do not exist: causes
are not difficult to find. At the dawn revival resurrection of literature – this was
I say of literature – for birth, not resurrection, was wanting to
some


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149

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poor law

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071

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001

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note to rule 12, p. 6

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text sheet

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1

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recto

Page Numbering

d8 / e2

Penner

jeremy bentham

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Notes public

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49925

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