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28 June 1811 8 Fallacies

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Blackstones strange opposition of his attempt to find in this same an unsurmountable bar to the reform of Church abuses in the major kingdom

An ordinary measure of blindness or assurance would not have sufficed for any such attempt as that of applying making out the same quibble of a an instrument for binding in the chains of everlasting and irremediable abuse the official establishment or any part of the official establishment of the major state

57 9 (Natural connection between cruelty and cowardice. 1. By cowardice danger is exaggerated: cruelty seeks advantage of the exaggeration. 2. Cruelty, rather than mass its gratification, discerns itself so far as to put on the mask of cowardice.)

This requisite necessary qualification was however found in the mind of Blackstone. Between timidity and cruelty the connection is in several respects points a natural one. In the On the one hand Proportioned to the magnitude of a mans fears is the expence he is willing to see bestowed in the shape of human misery sufferer — of misery understand that is to be borne felt endured by others for the purchase of that suffering which is to find some one other than himself to bear it of that misery and of their degree of supposed security which they look to as sufficient shall sufficient to put set them at rest. On the other hand, hatred, rather than not gorge itself rather than lose any part of the gratification for miss of any of the food it longs for. which it thirsts, to humble itself to such a degree what will frequently, such is its humility. put on the mask of cowardice.

58 10 Absurdity of the supposition of any such danger event as that to which the perpetuation clause is proposed represented as a uniform remedy — 45 Scotch Presbyterians to out vote and overpower 513 Church of England Episcopalians. Mischief of it — 1. Con reward to service 2. Producing instead of preventing services — 3. Easing the people of the expence of

But for the security afforded by a legislative compact, five and forty Scotch Presbyterians having, nobody could say how soon, out voted and over powered 513 English Church-of-England-men, would have overthrown the Church of England in England, substituting or not substituting the Church of Scotland in its stead. To Remuneration Pay The matter of reward might be might in the application of it be confined to service, the in the mode of application might be such as to be promotive instead of being obstructive of service as to produce service instead of preventing it from the expence of such part portions as in their application tended rather to the prevention than to the increase of service, the people might be cured.

a seat in the theatre of supreme power might be no longer be stand annexed to the pretension profession of experiencing, and the practice of an inexplicable volume.

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Date_1	1811-06-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	56 8 - 58 10
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	246	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / d8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections	peregrine bingham	Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	34217
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