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1829 June 16
J.B. on Peel or Review of J.B. and H.B.

Guilt

of
through the
negative veil therein over them

1. . 2. So acts of opposition
in so far as reform or
ten proposals
your reputation stands upon
precision

Note on
15 June 1829
induces procurement of the
than depict of

Of the frame and state of this mens mind
in respect of morality & very incorrect and inadequate
would a mans conception be, if the veil cast over it
by the negative form given to the description of it remains
unanswered. unseen through Promise of reform and improvement
what is then but preservation of all in that of misdeed. of what
reform could be the of with the attendant suffering the termination of which could
not by any mean other than the establishment of reform
be effected. if the number of those sorts sufferings suppose
death to be one: and in this shape from these cases. suffering
in instances but be : are beyond all doubt in
every year continually produced. The act by which
death is produced is termed homicide: and when
violence spent lawful and justifiable cause and after
and with deliberation an act of homicide is performed committed
murder the denomination given by every body without simpler
or to that act. But by a mere purely negative act,
homicide, murder, and punished,
measured as such and punishment as such may as effectually
be committed, as by a one. A woman engaged
as a wet nurse, wilfully forbares giving suck to a
newborn infant, whereupon it dies: not of — the negative this is murder in the
A prisoner being in close confinement without food
otherwise than through the hands of the Prison , the Prison
keeper forbears for and such a length of time
forbears administering first to the prison, that for want of it
he does. This act of negative as it is is not
the less nor the less criminal: this also is
an act of murder. As to morality more immoral as it by
far more immoral — there would be any pardon by
nether which that same had been produced: an
act of hunger: for example more immoral? Answer. Because
the
the quality of of
suffering to the by the
agent produced
by the is so made
by rules: both in
and in so much
greater

Go apply this to the
case of bad state of prison discipline, the correction of which is prevented by Peel.

Identifier: | JB/011/100/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1829-06-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	100	Info in main headings field	jb on peel or review of jb and hb
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	3797
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