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<p><add>in it that was</add> <hi rend="underline">positive:</hi> that it was merely a negative one: and <add>that accordingly</add> I defined | |||
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it "the <hi rend="underline">absence of restraint":</hi> I do not believe I | |||
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then added <hi rend="underline">"and constraint":</hi> that has been an addition | |||
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of your own. You mentioned it to me <sic>t'other</sic> day | |||
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with this addition. In the mean time I had <sic>discoverd</sic> | |||
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the defect: and had changed, in my papers, the word | |||
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<hi rend="underline">restraint</hi> into <hi rend="underline">coercion,</hi> as that which would include <unclear>both</unclear> | |||
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<hi rend="underline">restraint</hi> and <hi rend="underline">constraint.</hi> This <add><unclear>new term</unclear></add> I then communicated to | |||
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you; and you have adopted it in preference to the other | |||
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two.</p> | |||
<p>Whither you will say does all this tend? To this, that | |||
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you should find some means of exculpating me from a | |||
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charge of plagiarism<sic>.</sic> <add>I may otherwise stand exposed <del><gap/></del> to. The</add> Definition of Liberty is one of the | |||
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corner stones of my system: and <unclear>one</unclear> that i know not | |||
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how to do without. I ust make use of it; and that | |||
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perhaps at no long time hence. When I do, my enemies | |||
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(of whom I shall not fail to have abundance) will be | |||
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objecting to me that what I have said is stolen from | |||
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a amn who wrote in a newspaper. The disproof of that</p> | |||
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in it that was positive: that it was merely a negative one: and that accordingly I defined
it "the absence of restraint": I do not believe I
then added "and constraint": that has been an addition
of your own. You mentioned it to me t'other day
with this addition. In the mean time I had discoverd
the defect: and had changed, in my papers, the word
restraint into coercion, as that which would include both
restraint and constraint. This new term I then communicated to
you; and you have adopted it in preference to the other
two.
Whither you will say does all this tend? To this, that
you should find some means of exculpating me from a
charge of plagiarism. I may otherwise stand exposed to. The Definition of Liberty is one of the
corner stones of my system: and one that i know not
how to do without. I ust make use of it; and that
perhaps at no long time hence. When I do, my enemies
(of whom I shall not fail to have abundance) will be
objecting to me that what I have said is stolen from
a amn who wrote in a newspaper. The disproof of that
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Jeremy Bentham |
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