JB/058/428/001

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9 May 1805
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Reader, if any spark of real genuine humanity be still glowing
in thy bosom, if all sympathy for human misery wretchedness suffering be not extinguished
by sinister interest of the ice of age, give thanks to
the authors of language for this word factitious. There is a cordial
at the bottom of it. If all that wretchedness of which
the poison is the constant and almost every human bosom the occasional theatre – if all that misery of which the man of law
is the instrument, were the work of Nature, uncontroulable and inexorable omnipotent and uncontroulable
Nature, complaint would be useless unavailing, murmuring in
aggravation exasperation of the disease, patience and resignation the only remedy. But if so
great a portion part as will be brought to view marked out be the work of
art and human labour under the direction of human art, take careful, gentle Reader: that which
human labour heaped together, human labour may remove.

The gout, the stem, the rheumatism, are the work of
nature in an ill mood, assisted now and then by the patients
imprudence, which is again itself the work of nature: the physician is the healing
and to which afflicted man is indebted for whatsoever relief is
to be ever obtainable from not under those afflicting maladies.

If instead of being the work of nature these maladies sources of torture had
been the work of the physician, if in some dark age they had
been by his hand him into the human frame for the sake
of the profit to be made by curing or pretending to cure them, much
the patient would have been indebted been under the same sort of obligation owed the same sort of to
the physician, that the suitor has to is indebted for the man of law.

That part of the disease, which is the genuine work of Nature, being lying
but too indisputably beyond the reach of remedy, it is on every occasion the
policy of the man of law to mix his own work as undistinguishably to put his own work in hotchpot
as possible with the work of nature, that the disease in all its virulence
may be regarded as incurable it being given to nature for the whole. But a patient lured has been
found to make the separation, and the works of the different authors
are distinguished by different colours corresponding difference of colour in the Table here annexed.

Identifier: | JB/058/428/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-05-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	428	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	19097
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