27 May 1804

Evidence

Forthcomingness

Ch. Extraction

§.6. Extraordinary

What then is to be done? without some means /species of compulsive force/, and that the most promptly as well as certainly efficient that human nature admitts of, there is /one sees/ no bounds to the mischief that may be done: fire and water will not await the slow formalities of justice. For want of /them/ it, the mischief may be perpetrated, and a country laid in ruins: by the help of it, the mischief may be staid or prevented, and the country saved. Exemplified or not within a known and limited period, in this or that particular country, mischief of this kind can not in any country be deemed visionary: not to speak of foreign hostility, they are in every country among the natural fruits not only of established civil war, but of the insurrections and disturbances that lead to it.

Such it may be said, they are but contingent: and in a country fortunate enough to be unaccustomed to such outrages, they inspire no alarm + they are never looked to as probable: no habitual, no general alarm is seen issuing from any such

+ danger and alarm; together the

+ mischief of the 2 d order [...?]

source. On the other hand, establish torture, visiting it as in order to meet the possible mischief in its full extent, you must do, in the hands of every local magistrate in the country /kingdom/ /whole territory of the state/, a constant and universal alarm is produced - an actual and incipient alarm, merely to keep out a very rarely exemplified and contingent alarm, sinister in kind and not decidedly superior in degree.