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Popularity.

From p.21

In p.185. A Law is considered without further
ceremony, for being "contrary to the natural impulse of
"self-preservation."

The firs One of the principles here laid down for judging A fundamental principle then
of the relative to penal laws, is that there should be no penal
Laws.

This Here the censure against afflictive Death is though peremptory
is calm. In the next page + + p.23 he takes fare, and will
not bear to hear of it. Shall we plant thorns, says
he, in the path of Misery? God forbid! Such refinements
"of inhumanity are admissible only in governments
"so abominable in their constitution, as to
"make the mere loss of life desirable."

Objections like these⊞ ⊞ which consist in the mere expression of dislike without any reason for it, I refer to the head of Popularity,
(because they contain nothing in themselves),
because they add no weight to the scale beyond that
of a rough suffrage, because they are such as
any the bulk of the people are apt to make, such as the
any of the people may be are qualified to make, the most respectable
objectors being no otherwise distinguishable from the least respectable
of those that urge them, than by some a greater or less degree of superiority
in point of energy and elegance, [than by
the greater degree of energy and elegance with which
they colour their single vote, to make it answer the wear the
purpose semblance of an argument.

Identifier: | JB/159/142/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	142	Info in main headings field	popularity
Image	003	Titles	note / humanity
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26 / f27 / f28
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53965
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