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[MN/Why no Laws against Heresy.]

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There would be no inconvenience in [the common] people's p/a man's] believe the moon to be made of green cheese, provided the absurdity stopped there. But there would be a great deal of harm in [/a man's] peoples be-ing obliged to say, much more to swear that he behoves the moon to be made of green cheese. If he does say so either he is sincere or he is not. If he is not, then the following mischiefs take place 1. First of all here is a [x/falshood] Perjury or at the least a public solemn and deliberate act of falshood which a man committs. this is already one evil as it ... in as much as it contributes to ??lessen [/meaning the] the [x/regard] [/people the regard for] truth 2. In the next place here is amanifest act of tyranny committed by the ruling powers: [x/xxx] it is tyranny to oblige a man to do any act [/whatever] which he has no mind to do without a reason, much more to oblige him to do [x/such] [/such] an act, as like that in question is of no use to any one. [JB's note to self:: Here state the mischiefs of an act of tyranny ...] If he is ... sincere, this can not have taken place without a total debasement of his intellectual faculties? without an absolute disregard [^/ to] the suffrage of his own reason, and an unlimited reliance on the opinion or fractioned?? opinion of some other man or set of men upon whose credit he embraces this persuasion. If then he can be brought to believe [/embrace this opinion] this to be true upon their word, there is no other opinoin [how ??odious? or mischievous soever] that he would not embrace upon their word. These people will be either his sovereigns or not: if they be his sovereigns, so far is well. But this in practise is never found to be the case. A man's temporal sovereigns as such are no where supposed to be possessed of any such infallibility. If they be not his temporal sovereigns, then they are another set of people

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	17-28
Box	063	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	004	Info in main headings field	miscell.
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	20193
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