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Popularity.
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Popularity belongs not, nor can it belong to any
a species of punishment considered in by itself. All
Punishment is evil; and as such [is calculated to
excite the aversion of any every one who considers
it] considered in itself is [necessarily] odious. Were
it not so it could answer the purposes it is designed
for.

This circumstance which should naturally be a
powerful recommendation of any measure, is to
shallow statesmen little minds a power mark ground of reprobation.
[But there cannot be an greater error more corrupt mischievous
with respect to the public in its source nor more impolitic with than that which
prompts a man to make it so consider it in that light] Such
a proposal has been made measure has been proposed approved in the News-papers:
ergo therefore it ought not to be attended to. Such is
the Logic of shallow statesmen. This logic is not
good unless⊞ ⊞ the voice of the people in a popular government is not worth attending to, and unless any measure however excellent becomes
bad upon being proposed on a sheet of
coarse paper with a three halfpenny stamp upon
it printed in with a small type. unless Newspapers
have driven Ministers from their places: Newspapers
if ever so disparate a measure should again
be necessary [would not fail to be] might shake a
Sovereign from his throne. If the voice of the people
is at all to be collected, where should it make itself heard
but in those in which are open to every one who would
speak his mind.

Identifier: | JB/159/139/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	139	Info in main headings field	popularity
Image	004	Titles	decency
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53962
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