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28 Jany 1809 Peines

7* in and self- to when his own
expence is the standard and all moral
applied to the purpose of justification the production of needless human misery.
it: and as this ill-will is regarded as the sufficient
warrant or justifying cause for the infliction of this pain, so
for of the quantity of human pain proper to be in such inflicted, the degree
of ill-will - the degree of intensity in which this passion
is excited, is regarded taken for if not for the only proper,
at any rate for the self sufficient measure.
13 Under By the influence of the principle of sympathy & antipathy following vengeance or be is regarded not only as pointing out the cases meet for punishment but also as indicating the measure of punishment to be inflicted. 12

The In this principle may be seen the actuating ruling principle
is sufficient of action of the tyrant in every situation
from the highest to the lowest: the King sovereign <add>monarch</add> the Judge,
the the master of a family, the slave holder negro-, the College
Tutor, the pedagogue.

Tyraany, it has for its essence: it acknowledges
none: calculation, it alters and shrinks from,
merit, it ascribes and assumes to itself, in proportion to
its own and extravagance.

On the part of the ignorant heedless and unthinking
vulgar, this mode of measuring out dealing out punishment is
too frequent to excite wonder, and too natural to not
provoke censure. On the part of a professed teacher of
"moral and political philosophy", if it be also but too frequent
to excite wonder, it is that very account
affords but so much the stronger ground, and greater
use for censure.

But in this code of self-stiled moral and political philosophy
may might be seen a well-stocked repository of pernicious as well as vulgar and
pernicious errors. of errors no not less vulgar than pernicious.

Identifier: | JB/107/207/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
Date_1	1809-01-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	13, 12
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	207	Info in main headings field	peines
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	pr1	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	35198
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