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1821 Oct. 1
To Toreno

(2) On the subject of religion, indeed, it being the only one which
had received any special mention in your Letter, I had at the
time when the first of those my letters of mine was sent off written a few
pages, to which I thought of giving insertion in this. But by a second
glance on this part of the Code proposed Code, such a quantity of observation
was elicited insensibly
and I perhaps unfortunately elicited, in a quantity
much too great to
be consigned to a
Letter, in which any
other subject were
brought to view.
Should it ever reach
your hands, Sir,
it will accordingly be in the
form of a seventh
Letter, written in
addition to those
announced in the
first.

As to the taking of these letters, or any of
them, one by one, and considering in the first place
whether the act ought to be placed in the catalogue of
offences, in the next place whether death would be an
apt punishment for it, and if not what other would
be, no such book can I take upon myself
of taking on myself. In any Code of my drawing this
and a great deal more would be done: done in
much less of and be done here.

Only in religion I see a subject, in which at
the time of writing my/the first of these six letters I had
said a few words which I had destined for this place.
But on a closer view taken of the proposed Code on this
occasion, the quantity of matter has is at
, that I have felt the necessity of giving
to it this that title, and if I said it attempt
you with it all, not it it be a superior
and .

(1)
As to the taking of these cases, one by one or any of
them, one by one, and, by a regular application made of pre-established principles, considering in the first place, whether
the act ought to be placed upon the list of offences, in the
next place whether death would be an apt punishment
for it, and if not what other would be, no such task discussion, Sir,
can I, upon the present occasion, think of attempting to
trouble you with. In any Code of my drawing, this
would be done in a manner which in my eyes would
be compleat, at a much less expence of words than
the least that could be bestowed upon it in any
work having for its subject another Code, composed of a Code by another hand, even
arrangements for none of which would any reasons supposing the particular arrangements determined by a set of pre-established and declared principles:
of and not, like the
one in question, so
compleatly and even avowedly unprincipled, that
one good or bad be assigned but by conjectures,
a volume might be occupied by in the endeavour to reach
by conjecture, antecedently to discussion, examination, the considerations that
in the character of reasons, may have given birth to this or that
one Article.

End of the Letter.

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