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1819 June 5
Penal Code - Preface RudimentsIntrod. – Preface
§. Obnoxiousness of this enterprize.

Rudiments

1. Propensity to improvement from age to age: this seen in the difference between
place and place – anarchy – monarchy – aristocracy – rep. democracy

2. Counter-propensity: interest, or abuse and imperfection

3. Necessity of making this exposure here: for want of it good will
to , and the causes of remain imprisoned.

4. Without a strong sense of the mischievousness of the abuses in
state of things – and of the strength of the support given to them, the public cannot
be sufficiently excited to for the removal of them.
The third adherence to old institutions naturally and artificially is so strong, so strong the
steadiness given to existing abuses, nothing can be done but in proportion
to the interposition of it

5. The sinister interest would not be the less strongly set to
work were nothing said of it: therefore no loss or risk,
but some profit or chance of profit in speaking of it, and
giving warning of it.

6. The be In this as in all other cases, the better the
that is the more conducive beneficial if carried into effect to the universal interest, the more
galling it will be to the all sinister interests, the more vehement violent
therefore the desire and endeavour to bring it into discredit and
oppose it.

7. In this endeavour will of course be employed all the
fallacies – all of them jointly and severally, of which a description
may be found in the Book of Fallacies

8. Sinister interest the two chief, 1. Lawyers professional,
2. Governments official.

9. Sinister interest of the English mixt and corrupt government
more adverse to reform in this shape than that of
a the most despotic government; such as Bonaparte's, Alexander's &c
Bonaparte affranchised France from the tyranny of
the Lawyers

10. U.S. tyrannized by the aristocracy of the lawyers.

11. E. India company has few free , has few partakers in the sinister interest as to penal reform.

12. "You have counteracted your own designs by working against
us" – this lang is among the artifices constantly resorted to in
defence of sinister interest

13. ☞ Give History of J.B.s labours in the vanguard of penal
reform. By Beccarias book the effervescence first existed.

Identifier: | JB/549/226/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 549.
Date_1	1819-06-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	226	Info in main headings field	Penal Code. Preface. Rudiments
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year
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