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1831 March 22 April 10 R C2 M
J. B. on Registration to Commons of G. B. J. B.'s Plan

1o x 4o
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IX Principle 1
Disappointmt minimizg

2 2* 4

☞ April 10 — Quere whether to give insertion to any part of
the matter of this page?

25 or 2
In JB's list, next
stands the Disappointment
preventing
Principle

Next, in my list of principles which any Registration plan
has for its grounds. next stands the Disappointment-minimizing, or along
say the Disappointment-preventing or Non-disappointment principle.
Minimizing i.e. so far as possible preventing disappointing
is the object or say end in view which the proposed
Registration institution is aimed at, or it has none.
Of the whole of the line of property civil branch and
branch — yes and of whatsoever portion of the matter of line
has for its subject matter an object of general desire in any
other shape than that of a subject matter of property — this
is the only rational ground — the only all applying one that as derived deduced
immediately from the greatest happiness principles: others there
are, witness those below, but, none bearing upon registration.
None but that do not the importance of which does not depend
is
upon the importance of this — the fundamental principle
only intrinsically important principle

26 or 6
Whenever it is
said that a thing
ought to be done
by the legislator
it is but an item
in the account of
pains and pleasures

You who read th are reading this — you who ever you are — have probably
a coat upon your back: if after you had pulled it off
somebody were to go off with it, pain in your mind, pain
more or less would it not be a consequence? Yes: that it
would & you can not deny it: if it would not, give me
the coat: for to me it would be a pleasure to receive it. Here there is
an appeal to experience: yes — to every man's experience. But
thus it is that whatsoever is given as a reason for what any
thing of which it is said that it ought to be done by the law
that is to say by the legislator or legislators, or by any individual
in compliance with a will manifested by the legislators
is but neither more nor less than an item in the account of pains and pleasures

Thus on one hand, are words without meaning, signs
without things signified — sounds without sense — arrogance
without ground — gabble about right (meaning if that which is meant is legal right) in
contradistinction to moral, or first principles of justice, or every
principle of justice on the other. But to Mean time some there are by whom every appeal they make
to human feeling: is marked out [+]
[+]1 called theory, and
as such
held up to view as an object of just contempt [+]2
[+]2 while the exterior
preference is given to gabble
as above, by which no reference is made to human feeling, but is not the less strenuously insisted on as the only proper ground of legislation and juridical
decision, by the name of practice — a word employed in the as the name of that which is the opposite of .

Identifier: | JB/008/177/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Date_1	1831-08-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	008	Main Headings
Folio number	177	Info in main headings field	colonization society
Image	002	Titles	ch. v / constitution of the company and the colony considered in connection / ch. vi
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	street & co 1830
Marginals		Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1830
Notes public		ID Number	3281
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