1
results found in
37 ms
Page 1
of 1
nd [wm 1818]
Benthamâs Radical
Prelim
II. Necessity
4
2
Look at that man who sits upon that bench. Suppose him to have committed a crime in any shape, and me to charge him with it, being at the same time able to prove it. Who in that case will be punished: he for having committed it? No: but I for having charged him with it.
How so? on what ground is it that such a dispensation[?] of what is called justice can be defended? On this ground: that what in the way of supposition I have been speaking of as actual was impossible. No[?] impossible? Why, because being a Judge he is Member of Utopia of the Upper region of the State. By my supposition he has been guilty of /committed/ a crime but by the only authoritative and legitimate supposition this is impossible. In that practice it is no more possible for man to committ a crime than for God to committ one. By his doing it, that which if by an inhabitant of the lower region /Cacotopia/ would be a crime, is converted into a right /proper/ and laudable act, by the very circumstance of his doing it of its being he that did it.
Similar Items
-
Title: [1819 Dec. 5 Bentham’s Radical]Description: 1819 Dec. 5 Bentham’s Radical Prelim II. Necessity Utopian the Anti Reform hypothesis 2 Look to the Monarch, his Majesty is most excellent. Be his deportment and belief what it may he is by Act of Parliament not only Most gracious but “most religious”. Look to those who are in authority under him wrapped up in the renowned[?] pomps and vanities you see /of this wicked world/ Right Reverend Fathers in God < > in number, headed by six others each of whom is Most Reverend. On the other side you see Right Honourable and Noble persons /men[?]/ some hundred in number headed by < >, each of whom is a Noble and […?] Prince. Look to the other House, there you see 658 persons the least of whom is Honourable, many of them learned as well as Honourable - not a few Noble, headed by a dozen or two each of whom is Right Honourable. The Utopia of Lord Chancellor More the discourse was given by him as a fable /fabulous/. The Utopia shewn to us by Lord Sidmouth /Lord Liverpool/ and Lord Castlereagh and M r Vansittart and M r Canning and so many others is given to us as a reality: as a state of things so real that they act in any thing they do and there is a M r Copley is a M r Avey[?] body else who in the of /acting ex officio as/ Attorney General as often as Lord Liverpool or M r Vansittart will […?] […?] & will join in pressing him for it is ready without waiting for Judge or /and/ Jury to […?], and by […?] men as many as shall be perverse and profligate enough to question it. 1819 Dec r. 5 Bentham’s Radical Prelim II. Necessity Utopian the Anti Reform hypothesis 3 Thus far is the United Kingdom an Utopia and that a perfect one. So it would be, yea and more excellent than Utopia itself were it not […?] it […?] for a vile appendage which is at the bottom of it and which it is scarce decent /decency will scarce suffer a man[?]/ to name[?] to secure[?] It is accordingly composed /So it may accordingly be observed[?]/ two regions, the Upper in Utopia, in which every thing is still literally as it should be: a Lower, a Cacotopia, in which every thing is as it should not be. Seeing what I have seen - seeing my fellow countrymen /subjects/ by whom under so many cruel /galling/ provocations, such forbearance such temperance such self command in any virtuous shape has been manifested I feel inclined to accede to the hypothesis /theory/ of a Utopia with a Cacotopia attached. It is however with one /this/ amendment. In my view of it the Utopia is the region below; the Cacotopia the region above it. Not without grief and shame if they were all not to speak of a House of Lords should I confess myself to have for my countrymen such men as those which /with whom/ Honourable House is filled with: those by whom with so little success the case of strangers[?] are attempted and /[…?]/ to be presumed. But when I look abroad and for every one of these see a thousand by whom in rags and with empty stomachs and in rags such pure and genuine virtue has been manifested my shame is converted /turned/ into pride and I say If on these /the[?] few/ would such the country as[?] be[?] merited infamy but the many keep up its honour among the nations. [Marginal insertion:] will excepting a number two […?] /said/ to be thought of without agency
-
Title: [1819 Dec. 5 Bentham’s Radical]Description: 1819 Dec. 5 Bentham’s Radical Prelim II. Necessity Utopian the Anti Reform hypothesis 2 Look to the Monarch, his Majesty is most excellent. Be his deportment and belief what it may he is by Act of Parliament not only Most gracious but “most religious”. Look to those who are in authority under him wrapped up in the renowned[?] pomps and vanities you see /of this wicked world/ Right Reverend Fathers in God < > in number, headed by six others each of whom is Most Reverend. On the other side you see Right Honourable and Noble persons /men[?]/ some hundred in number headed by < >, each of whom is a Noble and […?] Prince. Look to the other House, there you see 658 persons the least of whom is Honourable, many of them learned as well as Honourable - not a few Noble, headed by a dozen or two each of whom is Right Honourable. The Utopia of Lord Chancellor More the discourse was given by him as a fable /fabulous/. The Utopia shewn to us by Lord Sidmouth /Lord Liverpool/ and Lord Castlereagh and M r Vansittart and M r Canning and so many others is given to us as a reality: as a state of things so real that they act in any thing they do and there is a M r Copley is a M r Avey[?] body else who in the of /acting ex officio as/ Attorney General as often as Lord Liverpool or M r Vansittart will […?] […?] & will join in pressing him for it is ready without waiting for Judge or /and/ Jury to […?], and by […?] men as many as shall be perverse and profligate enough to question it.
-
Title: [29 Jan y 1809 Peines 18 9]Description: 29 Jan y 1809 Peines 18 9 But a supposition involved in this metaphor as above, & which is as above groundless, is that though it may be done after, it is impossible before the crime is committed to give expression to the circumstances that constitute the ground for punishment What must be confessed, is — True it is that were it the quotation to stop here, and with the above blank in it unnoticed in it, it the quotation might be in danger of being charged with infidelity: being an unfaithful one. For time it is, that the time at which the impossibility of being enumerated or defined is predicated ascribed to of those circumstances in the time signified by the word "beforehand": viz. a length of time preceding the commission of the individual offence: he it being at the same time in the last preceding page, predicated of the same circumstances in the prior anterior antecedent page that "after the "crime is committed it is not only possible but " easy to " perceive" them, and on the posterior page that, at the same relative period it is matter of habitual practice to take the general character of them for the subject of "deliberation". But of these is a set of general terms which before this or that crime has been committed are capable of serving to give expression to the material circumstances of it - the circumstances on which the propriety or impropriety of punishing the criminal with death turns depends — of giving expression to those important circumstances after the crime has been committed — why the same words should be incapable or less capable of serving for the giving expression to those same circumstances before that same individual crime has been committed, remains to be explained by any person, if such there be, to whom it appears a practicable task to find any thing like sense or reason in this explanation and defence of the policy with the intelligence of which the Reverend doctor is so much enamoured. so completely satisfied.
1
results found.
Page 1
of 1