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1822 March 25.
Rid Yourselves
Letter ii. Interests concerned
1.
Importance of the
following distinctions.
On them turns difference
between good
and bad in government.
2.
Distinction 1. Interest
universal and particular.
3.
Distinction 2. Interests of
1. Subject many.
2. Ruling and influential
say ruling few.
4.
1. Interest universal
comprises all inhabitants.
5.
Numbers unequal,
greater interest the
broader; lesser's narrower
interest
6.
Maximization of
his own happiness,
each individual's interest.
7.
Maximization of
universal happiness,
interest of the aggregate
of all individuals.
8.
Per Code 4.13. Universal
happiness recognized
as the right
and proper end of
Government: thence
as the only do.
9.
But, to the extent of
incompatibility,
universal happiness
being unpursuable
remains, sole pursuable
object, greatest
number's greatest
happiness.(a) (a) Note in another page, occupying the page.
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Letter ii. Interests concerned
10.
From the universal
by and broadest right and
proper, every narrower
is to every broader,
as far as adverse a sinister sacrifice interest
11.
Every sacrifice to a
sinister interest is
sinister sacrifice.
12.
Largest do., sacrifice
of all's to one's interest.
13.
Sole form of government,
in which sinister only the interest of the
greatest number is uniformly
pursued, and the sinister sacrifice
is nearly impracticable,
that where,
immediately or unimmediately,
all operative rulers
are placed and at
short intervals displaceable
by subject many
constitutive rulers.
14.
Under every other, sinister
sacrifice is constantly
making, and
progressing towards
consummation.
16. 15.
In every community
each individual interest
may be adverse to
that of any and every
other.
17.
In each individual,
are moreover constantly conflicting
interests.
Example. General pecuniary
interest and interest
corresponding
to the gratification purchased
by each disbursement.
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Letter ii. Interests concerned
17. 18.
Suggested by view
of a conflict of this
sort were the contents
of this letter.
In each of two great
situations, an interest,
in hostility, and a do.
in alliance, with your
universal interest as
to this point. By this ap Cause of this
conflict, necessity of retrenchment.
18 19.
viz Monarch's and
Clergy's situation, both
armed with highest
power.
Add Public Creditor's,
which, as such, has nothing
to gain by the dominion
or the claims
thence is undividedly
in alliance with your's,
but has no such power.
16.
Instances of pairs of interests
liable to be in which
each one is liable to stand
in opposition to the other.
1. Now and 2
3. Capitalists and
4.
Producers of the necessaries
of life
, and
of agricultural
producers
7. Producers and
on the one hand, and
8. Distributors
9. Wholesale institutions
&
10. Retail Distributors
11. and
12. Producers and
furnishers.
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Productive and non-productive
classes
2. Non-proprietors and
proprietors
3. Labouring classes and
Capitalists.
4. Producers and Importers
from abroad.
5. and
in the above
may of was which
and do. do.
5. Creators and merely
distributive classes
6. Retail dealers and
wholesale dealers.
7. Individuals concerned
in the above ways or
any which, aged do. do.
in any rural article.
8. Individuals concerned
as above in necessaries, and
do. do. in luxuries.
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