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19 Aug. 1802
Letter 3d N. S. Wales
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as in that devoted and and combustible spot, on which the destruction of the whole
 to population may at any time be the result of a passion an affection
 of the kind, antisocial harboured raging though it be but for
 a few weeks or a few days, and though it be within the particular insulated 
lab limits of a single breast.
Mischievousness is for the most part the result of enmity. 
 — of both a desperation hostile to the persons individuals or classes to whose person
 or property the injury is endeavoured undertaken to be done. But (so 
 feeble is the influence restriction of the social affections in some minds) 
not only in war — but in sport the image of war thinks no
 suffering this appetite is seen to pursue its object — regardless 
of the poison which in the shape of suffering though 
it be human suffering is paid for it. It is by the love in the Bear-garden
 and the Bull baiting ground  of cruel sports that men train themselves up for the love of
 needless war. The same spirit cast of mind to which that in the Bear garden
 or the Bull baiting ground could in the agonies of a hunted 
animal could be a source of delectation would in the 
Cabinet seek its gratification by the maintenance in the flame lighting upon finding some ground upon of an useless 
and enle endless war or in Sydney or Parammatta New South Wales in the burning
 of the a Church or a Jail with or without the wretches  that 
were inclosed in it. When mischief is the product visible result it is 
often difficult or even impossible to say pronounce with
 on any sufficient grounds to which of the two causes, or
 if to both in what proportions the effect is to be ascribed. referred.  
| Identifier: | JB/116/486/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1802-08-19 | not numbered | ||
| 116 | panopticon versus new south wales | ||
| 486 | letter 3d n. s. wales | ||
| 001 | |||
| text sheet | 1 | ||
| recto | e5 | ||
| jeremy bentham | [[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]] | ||
| 1800 | |||
| 38019 | |||