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9 Febry 1803
Letters
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If instead of being what they were, the personages concerned
were either completely incapable of forming a determination <add>decision</add> judgment
on the subject, or determined inexorably determined bent
upon not giving to give a proper one, and therefore being ashamed
of withholden from by the fine of shame from giving that which they would wish to give, determined
therefore to effect give their object by giving none at all,
in what respect could their conduct have been different
from what it has been?
If instead of being what he it is, clear from first to last of all reproach
without spot or suspicion tried by an ordeal of nine years by a probationary course of ten
years suffering, the character of the individual concerned
were that of the vilest of malefactors, could the treatment
given to him have been more repulsive [more terrible] more expressive
than it has been? of real hatred and affected contempt more compleatly void
of every indication of sympathy of every
sign of mercy, than it has been?
Identifier: | JB/116/475/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116. |
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1803-02-09 |
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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jeremy bentham |
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[[notes_public::"angry / quere" [note in bentham's hand]]] |
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