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1 Novr 1802

Superseded Letter 2d Incediarism

Even in England instances cases are not wanting in which a sort of
blind antipathy malevolency, compounded of sport, envy and despair has
without any special provocation given birth to this crime in the breast on the part
of some deluded moon struck wretch; who till then was had led a life without reproach

Obviously, the greater the mischief of the act, the greater
the depravity of him who scruples by the view of that mischief is not deterred not the commission of
it: the more conclusive the testimony with which it indicates
him as being ready at all times, as often as temptation
offers, to plunge headlong into all crimes. And this very same
circumstance by adding to the terror which it inspires adds to the
mischief which+ it produces.

+ In time of scarcity, destruction
is the grand remedy always among
the remedies employed by
of an population
and on these occasions
fire the most
of all instruments
is seldom suffered to be
called.

Bradford the Pennsylvanian, a legislator as well as
a Judge. In so long a list of Among these motives, revenge, a particular
itself but a particular modification of the emotion of antipathy
is the only one that had presented itself in the
mind view of Bradford as capable of giving birth to the offence commission
of the offence His view of the subject would have been
enlarged had his ill fortune placed evil genius planted him in New
South Wales.

Bradford recognizes
no motive
but revenge.

Whatever Mischief that has happened may be pointed out without
awakening or giving offence. He who in the hope of preventing it from happening
should take upon himself to indicate it as capable of happening about
to happen
unless prevented would be continued consigned to
reliance as a dangerous man, and to contempt as a
theorist. The mechanist do does not affect neither despises hates nor
affects to despise nor hates the mathematician who by previous
calculations teaches him to saves him from the burden the expence and labour
of preparatory trials fumbling: but the possessor of political power is /spurred has
felt less not so much violent/so implacable antipathy against the head of the opposite party
as against the man of patient investigation industry, who by
analytical investigations should go about to attempt to teach him make him learn to
see beyond his nose. Have you any evidence to shew
that the mischief has ever happened? Principles have been
stolen: but can you prove the same of carrots? No argument
more frequent regularly produced: none more frequently transplant.

The speculation is
not a useless one, since
the greater the number
of different motives capable
of giving birth to
an offence, the greater
the number of chances
that any given man
will by falling within
the sphere of action
of some one of the
number of those motives
be drawn into
the commission of the
offence: In New
South Wales, motives
lead to it any where else
Incendiarism On this
moral account therefore, besides
physical ones incendiarism,
the first upon
the list of vulgar crimes,
the crime of which
murder forms but a
part. Incendiarism
is in no other place country
so common as it
must be for ever in
New South Wales.

Identifier: | JB/116/052/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-11-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	7
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	052	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::"superseded" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	37585
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