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Bentham, Jeremy. (1842). Auto-icon, or, Farther uses of the dead to the living : a fragment from the mss of Jeremy Bentham Retrieved December 8, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2810913207
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Bentham, Jeremy. Auto-icon, or, Farther uses of the dead to the living : a fragment from the mss of Jeremy Bentham [London: , 1842. Web. 8 December 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2810913207>
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| year=1842
| section=21 p. ; 24 cm.
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freemarker.core._TemplateModelException: [... Exception message was already printed; see it above ...]
at freemarker.ext.beans.BeanModel.get(BeanModel.java:185)
at freemarker.core.Dot._eval(Dot.java:43)
at freemarker.core.Expression.eval(Expression.java:101)
at freemarker.core.BuiltInsForExistenceHandling$ExistenceBuiltIn.evalMaybeNonexistentTarget(BuiltInsForExistenceHandling.java:52)
at freemarker.core.BuiltInsForExistenceHandling$has_contentBI._eval(BuiltInsForExistenceHandling.java:114)
at freemarker.core.BuiltInsForExistenceHandling$has_contentBI.evalToBoolean(BuiltInsForExistenceHandling.java:121)
at freemarker.core.ConditionalBlock.accept(ConditionalBlock.java:48)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:335)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:341)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:341)
at freemarker.core.Environment.include(Environment.java:3104)
at freemarker.core.Include.accept(Include.java:171)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:335)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:341)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:341)
at freemarker.core.Environment.include(Environment.java:3104)
at freemarker.core.Include.accept(Include.java:171)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:335)
at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:341)
at freemarker.core.Environment.process(Environment.java:314)
at freemarker.template.Template.process(Template.java:383)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerView.processTemplate(FreeMarkerView.java:391)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerView.doRender(FreeMarkerView.java:304)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerView.renderMergedTemplateModel(FreeMarkerView.java:255)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractTemplateView.renderMergedOutputModel(AbstractTemplateView.java:179)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:316)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1376)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.processDispatchResult(DispatcherServlet.java:1121)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:1060)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:943)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:1006)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:898)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:687)
at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:883)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder$NotAsync.service(ServletHolder.java:1452)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:791)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$ChainEnd.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1626)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlets.GzipFilter.doFilter(GzipFilter.java:50)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:193)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1601)
at au.gov.nla.dlir.config.JSessionIdRemoveFilter.doFilter(JSessionIdRemoveFilter.java:74)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:201)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1601)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:548)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143)
at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:578)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:127)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:235)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1624)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:233)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1435)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:188)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:501)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1594)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:186)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1350)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:191)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:146)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:127)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:516)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.lambda$handle$1(HttpChannel.java:388)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.dispatch(HttpChannel.java:633)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:380)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:273)
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:311)
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:105)
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$1.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:104)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.runTask(EatWhatYouKill.java:336)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:313)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.tryProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:171)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:129)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:375)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:773)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$Runner.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:905)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:750)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor132.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at freemarker.ext.beans.BeansWrapper.invokeMethod(BeansWrapper.java:1553)
at freemarker.ext.beans.BeanModel.invokeThroughDescriptor(BeanModel.java:233)
at freemarker.ext.beans.BeanModel.get(BeanModel.java:152)
... 76 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException