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gains are greater, or the expense less, than in any other branch; –
there not in the breasts and in the heads of merchants a
principle that will lead them to find out the most lucrative,
without their being whipped to it, or whistled to it, by the
wisdom of the present administration."

If the principles I have been reviewing were to be pursued
by all who have as good a right to pursue them as we
have, a war of all against all would be the consequence &
all trace of man would be swept from off the earth.

There might be wisdom in blind and malignant ,
if, by shutting our own eyes against our own injustice,
we could shut the eyes of our fellow-men; the misfortune
is, that we open them but the wider.

Sir, it is not my ambition to crush insects: but better
arguments than these the cause does not supply – Sir, I
no war with harmless ignorance: but when ignorance
a great nation is egged on to run a-muck against the
, – severity becomes a duty and compassion for one
gives way to sympathy for millions

I am, Sir,
Yours &c
Anti-Machiavel

These Anti-Machiavel letters excited the resentment of Europe the
. He discovered their author, and never ceased to
Bentham in the light of a personal enemy.
always attributed the veto he put upon
Panopticon Bill after it had passed both Houses
of Parliament, – to the vindictive pillage created by
correspondence.

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