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9 Oct. 1814 5

Logic or Ethics Ethics
Ch. Moral Entities

5

The That instances may [here and there] be found, in
which, by operations exertions other than those which as above, consist
in abuse of power, the class of possessions here in question
are frequently now and then spoken of as having been obtained is
not to be denied: for instance by the enactment of wise
laws, by the manifestation of the virtue of justice in transactions
with foreign nations.

But it is only by operations a long continued
series of operations carried on in these those directions respectively,
or by some one operation carried on upon a scale of extraordinary
magnitude that by any such innocuous means any
the least particle of their gorgeous brilliant possessions is commonly
spoken of as having been acquired: and when any portion
of them is spoken of as having by any such means been acquired,
the quantity magnitude ascribed to it is so small, that in comparison
of that which is continually spoken of as acquirable and
acquired by those pernicious and flagitious means, it
shrinks into insignificance.

If these observations are well grounded, the consequence
is, that he who seems to be that in so far as, without confining the recommendation to
the those particular cases in which of these same brilliant possessions
some small stock is considered as acquirable by innocuous
means, a man speaks of them in terms of which within the tendency
is to engage men in the indiscriminate endeavour to acquire them by any
means, and thence by those same flagitious means, the part
he acts is that of an incendiary a sort species of malefactor, in
comparison of whom a common incendiary is as much inferior
in the scale of mischievousness as the greatest quantity of mischief
that in all shapes capable of being perpetrated by a single act of incendiarism is
inferior
inferior to the greatest
quantity of mischief
capable of being perpetrated
by a foreign or
domestic war.



Identifier: | JB/014/170/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.

Date_1

1814-10-09

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

014

Main Headings

deontology

Folio number

170

Info in main headings field

logic or ethics

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d5 / d5

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] mj&l 1811]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

colonel aaron burr

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1811

Notes public

ID Number

4933

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