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<p>1828 July<lb/> | |||
<!-- pencil -->Letter IV. <gap/> to Herald onRape-licence &c</p> | |||
<p>You may imagine Sir I have forgotten <hi rend="underline">rape</hi>.<lb/> | |||
No such thing. Your fair readers need not in this place<lb/> | |||
<del>shut</del> <add>stop</add> their ears or shut their eyes or stop their ears.<lb/> | |||
I enter not <add>am not about to enter</add> into details. The thing is in the <unclear>Bible</unclear><lb/> | |||
the word is in Blackstone. It is because in my <unclear>opinion</unclear><lb/> | |||
the produce is so bad, and because it is my wish at least<lb/> | |||
to narrow it – it is for this cause that I venture to<lb/> | |||
obtrude upon you the word: for that which I am <add>now</add> doing<lb/> | |||
for the purpose of the endeavours I am <unclear>using</unclear> to prevent<lb/> | |||
as far as may be the practice. I know not how to do<lb/> | |||
<del><gap/></del> without speaking of it. Yes, Sir, in my view<lb/> | |||
of <del>the matter</del> <add>it</add>, the practice is a fit subject matter for<lb/> | |||
prohibition: and that not only a nominal but an<lb/> | |||
effectual one. I, Sir, am not legislator, <del>I have it<lb/> | |||
not in me</del> There exist not any set of men, whom<lb/> | |||
by <unclear>threatening</unclear> to turn them out of their all I can force<lb/> | |||
to make <unclear>one sin</unclear>. I am not a legislator. But other<lb/> | |||
there are who are legislators and to whose <unclear>opinion</unclear> rape<lb/> | |||
is a fit subject for a licence. In this <add>opinion</add> they have<lb/> | |||
far out<gap/> even the Archbishop of Canterbury. The<lb/> | |||
service capable of being done to <unclear>health</unclear> by fornication<lb/> | |||
has its limits: <del>In</del> the <del><gap/></del> like service capable of being<lb/> | |||
<del><gap/></del> rendered by enjoyable <gap/> has also its limits.<lb/> | |||
For greatest numbers of <gap/> <unclear>man</unclear> was ever known to<lb/> | |||
be blessed with was the number possessed by <del>the</del> <add>a</add> King<lb/> | |||
for ought I know the now King of <unclear>Ashantee</unclear>: and <del>this</del><lb/> | |||
by the latest accounts <unclear>that</unclear> exceeded not 4,000.</p> | |||
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1828 July
Letter IV. to Herald onRape-licence &c
You may imagine Sir I have forgotten rape.
No such thing. Your fair readers need not in this place
shut stop their ears or shut their eyes or stop their ears.
I enter not am not about to enter into details. The thing is in the Bible
the word is in Blackstone. It is because in my opinion
the produce is so bad, and because it is my wish at least
to narrow it – it is for this cause that I venture to
obtrude upon you the word: for that which I am now doing
for the purpose of the endeavours I am using to prevent
as far as may be the practice. I know not how to do
without speaking of it. Yes, Sir, in my view
of the matter it, the practice is a fit subject matter for
prohibition: and that not only a nominal but an
effectual one. I, Sir, am not legislator, I have it
not in me There exist not any set of men, whom
by threatening to turn them out of their all I can force
to make one sin. I am not a legislator. But other
there are who are legislators and to whose opinion rape
is a fit subject for a licence. In this opinion they have
far out even the Archbishop of Canterbury. The
service capable of being done to health by fornication
has its limits: In the like service capable of being
rendered by enjoyable has also its limits.
For greatest numbers of man was ever known to
be blessed with was the number possessed by the a King
for ought I know the now King of Ashantee: and this
by the latest accounts that exceeded not 4,000.
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