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<p>Another great & unjust evil both in the judicial<lb/> | |||
' | & legislational departments is the want of publicity.<lb/> | ||
Publicity is the only security for justice. Bentham<lb/> | |||
in a passage as <del><gap/></del> <add>attractive</add> for the beauty of its <gap/>, as<lb/> | |||
<del><gap/></del> admirable for the fact of its reasonings (Judicial<lb/> | |||
Establishment) calls publicity the soul of justice. Thro' it<lb/> | |||
alone justice becomes the mother of security. A German<lb/> | |||
moralist has said Man is good – men are evil – & why? because<lb/> | |||
he was accustomed to contemplate men in <hi rend="underline">unclave</hi> – men met<lb/> | |||
together in secret without responsibility & without dread of<lb/> | |||
exposure. Even where their proceedings are public, bodies of men<lb/> | |||
are accustomed to do <unclear>witlessly</unclear> what in their individual capacity they<lb/> | |||
would blush – or refuse – or disdain to do. What chances are<lb/> | |||
there then for justice when <add>it is proposed to be violated by the concurrent act of members – when</add> the stigma of reproach is divided<lb/> | |||
among many & each fancies his own portion to <unclear>see</unclear> all as<lb/> | |||
not to be worth his care or concern, & where <del>above</del> <add>most fatal are <gap/> of</add> all, every<lb/> | |||
individual is screened from animadversation & from<lb/> | |||
observation – where the work is one of darkness & of<lb/> | |||
concealment?</p> | |||
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Another great & unjust evil both in the judicial
& legislational departments is the want of publicity.
Publicity is the only security for justice. Bentham
in a passage as attractive for the beauty of its , as
admirable for the fact of its reasonings (Judicial
Establishment) calls publicity the soul of justice. Thro' it
alone justice becomes the mother of security. A German
moralist has said Man is good – men are evil – & why? because
he was accustomed to contemplate men in unclave – men met
together in secret without responsibility & without dread of
exposure. Even where their proceedings are public, bodies of men
are accustomed to do witlessly what in their individual capacity they
would blush – or refuse – or disdain to do. What chances are
there then for justice when it is proposed to be violated by the concurrent act of members – when the stigma of reproach is divided
among many & each fancies his own portion to see all as
not to be worth his care or concern, & where above most fatal are of all, every
individual is screened from animadversation & from
observation – where the work is one of darkness & of
concealment?
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