JB/035/084/001

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To alledge as a sufficient ground for the denial
of this liberty the uneasiness which it may be productive of on the part of those on whom
it may be exercised is to alledge the smart
of puncture as a reason for not bleeding a man
who has dropt down in an apoplectic fit, or for
not tapping a man who is ready to burst with
a dropsy. It is to alledge sacrifice to this momentary satisfaction the pleasure of hundreds
the lasting security of
millions.

All that experience has ever exhibited, all
that imagination can figure to itself, which is not
more than experience has for a long time been
exhibiting, of the abuse of this liberty, is nothing
in comparison of the necessity. In the scale of
reason and utility, the whole mischief it is not so much as a feather
against a ton against the body from which it
has been plucked.

The more loudly a mans conduct calls for
this censure the more averse he will necessarily
be to the exercise of it: the blacker and
more indisputable a man's guilt the more strenuous
he will be in his endeavours to prevent
a trial. Since the beginning of the world it has been characteristic It is the known property of guilt to shrink
from enquiry as it has been of merit and calmnesssuspected
innocence to count it to count it as a favour, and of suspected innocence to demand it as a due. He who would stifle enquiry gives judgment against himself.

Identifier: | JB/035/084/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	084	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	floyd & co
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10677
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