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IncompetencesPunishment in alienam personam.

he goes among the bad men: and they fix a great
gulph between the two. If there opinion with respect
to either comes to change, as they have no intermediate
stages, he is removed from his station
with the same violence as he was at first placed
in it. But men of observation and cool reflection,
who have had patience and sagacity to make a narrow
search into human nature learn to correct the errors
of their indolent and hasty system; they know that in
the scale of merit men's characters rise one above the
other by infinite and indi imperceptible degrees:
and at the same time that the highest is distant from
the lowest by a much less space in a much less degree than is commonly vulgarly
imagined.

Those who admitt the trouble of these above observations
Hence the impropriety
of drawingmakin a
rigid line between
the credible and incredible. will see how ill precarious & ill contrived a means the law takes to come
at truth by giving into the error above noticed: by making
one class of man which it will hear, and another
of men whom it will not suffer to be heard in any case or
on any account. In a word, (for I own that
the argument comes to this) that [+] to avoid a small
[+] while it smitesenjoins any
class of persons to be excluded
at all events degree of possible inconvenience it embraces a great
degree of certain inconvenience.

To It is manifest that the fewer are the smaller the number of persons
The Sum of Falshood
of guards against is
but small areis when it guards against in proportion to those
from where it remains still exposed to in danger of, the less is the
advantage gained by it. Whom then does it guard
against? a few hundreds perhaps in a nation. Andfrom whom does
it remain exposed to danger? all the rest of the nation
For who is it from whom it does not stand
exposed in any case to a danger of this kind in this way, I declare

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	145	Info in main headings field	punishment in alienam personam
Image	002	Titles	incompetency
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f53 / f54
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l v g
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48362
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