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Jeofails Informaletter &
Before the Populace had attempted it directly
others of a rank superior to, but activated in
that behalf by the prejudices of the Populace
wirlied indirectly that indirectly the Prison-doors might
be indirectly thrown open for the escape of one single man.
Unfortunately for this country, if the impression
thus made intime still, the popularity affection for <add>fewer of that
man's causes diffused still upon those dispretfulunsumly
expedients in the texture of the Law, bythereof which as this man
escape in future whose suffering may be as dearmuch
an object of their wishes as his was of their fears
I charge not the yielding to this impression uponas
human Natureon other of peculiar reproach to any one I charge
it upon Human Nature: so strong is the propensity
both of aversion antipathy and of affection to themselves
upon all occasions from the end to the means, that the last-exercised
Philosophy when put a ruddon to the trial, is not
always able to them entirely to their proper
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jeremy bentham |
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