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<p><!-- pencil --><head>Indirect</head></p> | |||
<p>of mankind <add>the people</add> are exposed to the outrages of the<lb/> | |||
lower, who if they can but maintain a <add>the</add> superiority<lb/> | |||
for the instant have nothing to apprehend for<lb/> | |||
the future, conscious of being unknown and<lb/> | |||
deriving security from their meanness.</p> | |||
<p>A man meets you in the street picks a<lb/> | |||
quarrel with you jostles you into the pavement<lb/> | |||
or raises a mob about <del><gap/></del> you by pursuing<lb/> | |||
you with calumnious accusations or opprobrious<lb/> | |||
language. What remedy have you at present?<lb/> | |||
<del>none at all</del> very likely none at all: ask his<lb/> | |||
name he is not so weak as to tell you. <del>Bring</del><lb/> | |||
If he is the strongest it would be in vain to<lb/> | |||
think of arresting him: even if that should not<lb/> | |||
be the case he may have his abettors among<lb/> | |||
the mob, or the law as in the two cases last<lb/> | |||
mentioned may not permitt you to arrest him.<lb/> | |||
To arrest a man and <del><gap/></del> consign him to the<lb/> | |||
hands of justice requires a great and constant<lb/> | |||
superiority: the superiority of a moment would<lb/> | |||
enable you to see his mark, and if your own<lb/> | |||
strength were not sufficient, you may get the<lb/> | |||
assistance of a bystander for that purpose, who<lb/> | |||
<add>could not or</add> would not lower <add>quite<del></del></add> his business for <del>as long a time<lb/> | |||
as would be necessary the</del> other purpose. Besides<lb/> | |||
<add>though</add></p> | |||
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Indirect
of mankind the people are exposed to the outrages of the
lower, who if they can but maintain a the superiority
for the instant have nothing to apprehend for
the future, conscious of being unknown and
deriving security from their meanness.
A man meets you in the street picks a
quarrel with you jostles you into the pavement
or raises a mob about you by pursuing
you with calumnious accusations or opprobrious
language. What remedy have you at present?
none at all very likely none at all: ask his
name he is not so weak as to tell you. Bring
If he is the strongest it would be in vain to
think of arresting him: even if that should not
be the case he may have his abettors among
the mob, or the law as in the two cases last
mentioned may not permitt you to arrest him.
To arrest a man and consign him to the
hands of justice requires a great and constant
superiority: the superiority of a moment would
enable you to see his mark, and if your own
strength were not sufficient, you may get the
assistance of a bystander for that purpose, who
could not or would not lower quite his business for as long a time
as would be necessary the other purpose. Besides
though
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jeremy bentham |
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