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<p>16</p> | |||
<p><head>Popularity.</head><lb/> | |||
<note>Ins:</note></p> | |||
<p>Popularity belongs not, nor can it belong to any<lb/> | |||
<del>a</del> species of punishment considered in <add>by</add> itself. All<lb/> | |||
Punishment is evil; and as such [is calculated to<lb/> | |||
excite the aversion of any <add>every</add> one who considers<lb/> | |||
it] considered in itself is [necessarily] odious. Were<lb/> | |||
it not so it could answer the purposes it is designed<lb/> | |||
for.</p> | |||
<p>This circumstance which should naturally be a<lb/> | |||
powerful recommendation of any measure, is to<lb/> | |||
shallow statesmen <add>little minds</add> a <del>power</del> mark <add>ground</add> of reprobation.<lb/> | |||
[But there cannot be an <del>greater</del> error more corrupt <add>mischievous<lb/> | |||
with respect to the public</add> in its source nor more impolitic <add>with</add> than that which<lb/> | |||
prompts a man to make it so <add>consider it in that light]</add> Such<lb/> | |||
a proposal has been made <add>measure has been proposed approved</add> in the News-papers:<lb/> | |||
ergo <add>therefore</add> it ought not to be attended to. Such is<lb/> | |||
the Logic of shallow statesmen. This logic is not<lb/> | |||
good unless<hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> <note><hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> the voice of the people in a popular government is not worth attending to, and unless</note> any measure however excellent becomes<lb/> | |||
bad upon being proposed on a sheet of<lb/> | |||
coarse paper with a three halfpenny stamp upon<lb/> | |||
it printed in <add>with</add> a small type. <del>unless</del> Newspapers<lb/> | |||
have driven Ministers from their places: Newspapers<lb/> | |||
if ever so disparate a measure should again<lb/> | |||
be necessary [would not fail to be] might shake a<lb/> | |||
Sovereign from his throne. If the voice of the people<lb/> | |||
is at all to be collected, where should it make itself heard<lb/> | |||
but in those <add>in</add> which are open to every one who would<lb/> | |||
speak his mind.</p> | |||
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Popularity.
Ins:
Popularity belongs not, nor can it belong to any
a species of punishment considered in by itself. All
Punishment is evil; and as such [is calculated to
excite the aversion of any every one who considers
it] considered in itself is [necessarily] odious. Were
it not so it could answer the purposes it is designed
for.
This circumstance which should naturally be a
powerful recommendation of any measure, is to
shallow statesmen little minds a power mark ground of reprobation.
[But there cannot be an greater error more corrupt mischievous
with respect to the public in its source nor more impolitic with than that which
prompts a man to make it so consider it in that light] Such
a proposal has been made measure has been proposed approved in the News-papers:
ergo therefore it ought not to be attended to. Such is
the Logic of shallow statesmen. This logic is not
good unless⊞ ⊞ the voice of the people in a popular government is not worth attending to, and unless any measure however excellent becomes
bad upon being proposed on a sheet of
coarse paper with a three halfpenny stamp upon
it printed in with a small type. unless Newspapers
have driven Ministers from their places: Newspapers
if ever so disparate a measure should again
be necessary [would not fail to be] might shake a
Sovereign from his throne. If the voice of the people
is at all to be collected, where should it make itself heard
but in those in which are open to every one who would
speak his mind.
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jeremy bentham |
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caroline vernon |
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