JB/120/122/001

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5 Mar 1802 + Before B 1

15 Conn Obs

If then in factin the course of this period there have been in fact any two portions of time
in which their the complexion of their conduct in point of sincerity
has varied - their intuitions having been unformable to their

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the course of many years their plan should
never have undergone experience any thing of bation, fluctuation
or change is more than I can take upon me to
assure myself of - that men the plans of whose conduct knows
no guide but the convenience and or perceived supposed interest of
the moment should every now and then be subjected
to change is natural enough. If the truth of my
hypothesisexplanation required to be required an uniform
unvaried consistent line of conduct to be pursued by
them throughout any inconsistency in the line of
conduct represented by me as actually pursued by
them, would indeed be adverse to my supposition,
and afford a reason ground for regarding it as false
erroneous - incorrect. If their conduct were set aside
duty and their professions, at the one time, and repugnant, at time or in any respect inconsistent , any statement or Supposing the
conduct inconsistent
at any time, a
interest
represented it as
underingly
would be incorrect
No such
to it
Incononsistency is
no to this
but the time is
left in doubt
the other, any explanation which should represent it as all along
uniform and consistent, whether the wron right or
on the wrong side, conduct in so far be an incorrect one.
But, as in fact I never did take upon me to assure my
ascribe to them, in my own mind, with any degree of positiveness any such inflexible
consistency, so rather does the purpose of the narrative or the argument require I
should. [+] That there has the time exist<add>has existed</add> of time an intention [+] That min the plans
of a man whose conduct
knows no guide
but the convenience or
supposed interest of the
moment should undergo
frequent changes, is
natural enough
was conceived by them, of sacrificing the establishment and
that that intention has carried into effectwas pursued by a train
of conduct carried on for during a length at - of time during which of time when the opposite
intention was professed during which the opposite, is with me beyond a doubt: but
at what precise time this plan of duplicity was taken up- the treachery conceived- and with
what degree of steadiness and consistency it was carried
on - these are points which I find myself obliged must be content to
state as doubtful ones: but which I am the more perfectlyhave in doubt as doubtful ones which as such I
fully content to leave in the darkness in which<add>find them</add>they are involved,must be content to submitt to better informed and more
inasmuch as the clearing it up, would though a matter of
some curiosity, would be an object of no moment with reference to any practical
use or purpose.

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Identifier: | JB/120/122/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 120.
Date_1	1802-03-05	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	120	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	122	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d15 / e5 / f15
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	39948
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