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7 Novr 1810
Defence of Economy

The mode and the only mode employed in those Courts
as well as in the Courts called Equity Courts is a mode
adapted in the highest possible degree in unless the
mode in which it is collected in the shape of affidavit
evidence be an exception to the generation production propagation of
perjury: it ha contains in it virtue enough for the production
of that which not merely in those impure breasts
but in any the priest that are to be found any where can any where be to be found.
It is of all modes that which a man an intelligent legislator who had for
his object the production of perjury in the greatest possible
quantity would devise and establish for that purpose.

Its fitness for that purpose, together with its compleat
unfitness for every honest purpose for every purpose of truth
and justice is a matter of perpetual experience which
not only no practising lawyer can ever have beenignorant of but which
no such lawyer never has ventured or would ever venture
so much as venture to deny: and in particular
those high-seated lawyers by whom in the character of Judges
it be continues with so imperturbable a tranquillity, to
be employed.

To cure that perversity of Anglo-American breasts
which they were disposed to the emission of perjury is now int he power of the persons British legislators exercising the powers of
government in Great Britain and Ireland. But to substitute
to a system mode of collecting and extracting evidence by which perjury is and always has
been discouraged encouraged in the highest degree a mode in which
it is universally known and acknowledged to be discouraged
in the highest possible degree is and always has
been in the power of that as of every other legislature.

It may be a course more congenial to piety to pray toPiety may perhaps suggest to some men in the character of an appropriate
remedy, the praying to a prayer to God to turn the hearts that beat in those perverse breasts. But a course
more congenial to morality in the shape of sincerity as in so many others seems to be⊞ ⊞ Be this as it may morality it seem appears to suggest suggests as a more effective remedy. the transferring to them
causes and to this judicatory that well known mode of collecting and extracting
evidence which by
encreasing the difficulty
and danger of committing
lessens the temptation to
committ that sin, and
in that way tends to
deliver us from the evil with which it is pregnant.

Identifier: | JB/547/043/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 547.
Date_1	1810-11-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	"22 or 5, 23 or 6, 24 or 7, 25 or 8"
Box	547	Main Headings
Folio number	043	Info in main headings field	Defence of Economy
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
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