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Titre : An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation : printed in the year 1780 and now first published / by Jeremy Bentham,...

Auteur : Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832). Auteur du texte

Éditeur : T. Payne (London)

Date d'édition : 1789

Notice du catalogue : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb30085224s

Type : monographie imprimée

Langue : anglais

Format : 9-CCCXXXV p. ; in-4

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Droits : Public domain

Identifiant : ark:/12148/bpt6k93974k

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Droit, économie, politique, F-17858

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Date de mise en ligne : 15/10/2007

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are expofed to funfer by, all men will be difpofed to hate. It is far yet, however, from being a confiant ground for when a man fuffers, it is not always that he knows what it is he fuffers by. A man may fL)ffer grievouuy, for inftance, by a new tax, without being able to trace up the caufe ofhis fufferings,to the injuAice of fome neighbour, who has eludedthepaymentofanoldone.

XVI.

Thé principle of fympathy and antipathy is moft apt to err on thé fide of feverity. It is for applying punifhment in many cafes which defcrve none in many cafes which deferve fome, it is for applying more than they deferve. There is no incident imaginable, be it ever fo trivial, andfb remote ~-om mi~chie~ from which this principle may not extract a ground ofpunifhment. Any difference in tari:e: any différence in opinion upon one fubjt'c): as well as upon another. No ilifabreement fo trifling which perfeverance and altercation will not render ~erious. Eaeh becomes in the other's eyes an enemy, and, if iaws permit, criminal~ This is one of the circumdances by which thé <e!f: butifyougoabout.by word or deed, to do any thing to hinder him, or « make him Mer for it, it is you, and not he, that have donc wrong it is not your <ettingyour(e!ftob!amehis condua, or branding it with the name of vice, that willmakehimcu)pable, or yen biamele~. Therefore, if you can make yourfelf content that he fhall be. of one mind, and you of another, about that matter, and ib continue, it is wel! but if nothing will ferve you, but that you and he muH needs be of the fame mind, 1*11 teU you what you have to do it is for you to get the better of yoar antipathy, not for him totruckie to it."

King James the Fira of England had conceived a violent antipathy againft Arians two of whom he burnt This gratification he procured himfelf without much difficutty the notions of the times were favourabie to It. Ile wrote a funous bock againft Vorttius, for being what was called an Arininian for Vorftius was at a diftance. He wrote à furious book, ca!!ed A Counterbaft to Tobacco, againft the ufe of that drug, which Sir Walter Raleigh had then lately introduced. Had the notions of the times co-operated with him, he would have burnt the Anabaptift and thé fmoker of tobacco in the fame nre. Howevèr he had thefatisfacUon of putting Raleigh to death afterwards, thongh for another crime.

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