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1829 June 8 Article

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Putting aside abstraction, apply this to realities: To
putting aside the demands of happiness itself, take for the subject
of the operation the material causes of happiness, of which
money may be taken for a representation

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Instead of the happiness
taken from the 2000
give unhappiness as much
as they can receive. Will the
addition To the aggregate of
happiness of the 4001 will
the result be net profit?
Loss because receptacle capable
of receiving more unhappiness
that happiness.

Take from your 2000 and give to your 2001 all the
happiness you find your 2000 in possession of: plant insert in
the room of the happiness you have eradicated taken out, unhappiness
in as large a quantity as the receptacle
will contain: to the stock</del> 4001 take stock of aggregate amount of the happiness
possessed by the 4001 taken together will the result be
net profit? on the contrary, the whole profit will be
have given place to loss. How so? because so it is that the
such is the nature of the receptacle, the quantity of the unhappiness
it is capable of containing during any given portion
of time is greater than the quantity of happiness

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The 4001 being equal in all
respects make the 2000
slaves & divide them among
the 2001. — will the happiness
of the whole be increased?

At the outset place your 4001 in a state of equal
perfect equality in respect of the means or say instruments
of happiness — and in particular power and opulence: all every one of them
in a state of equal liberty — every one independent of every
other: every one of them with a possessing an equal portion
of money and money's worth: in this state it is that you
find them. Taking in hand now your 2000 reduce them to
a state of slavery, and no matter in what proportions of the slaves thus constituted divide them the whole number with
such their property among your 2001; the operation performed of the happiness of what number
4001 will an augmentation be the result? The question
answers itself. Were

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Were it so, see the
practical results. In England
make the Catholics
slaves & divide them among
the Protestants: in Ireland
divide the protestants &c.

Were it otherwise, note now the practical application
that would be to be made of it in the British Isles. In Great Britain
take the whole body of the Roman Catholics and make slaves
of them and divide them in any proportion them and their progeny among the whole body
of the Protestants. In Ireland take the whole body of the Protestants
and divide
them in like manner
among the whole body
of the Roman Catholics

Identifier: | JB/014/451/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1829-06-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	56-58
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	451	Info in main headings field	article
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e2 / f38 / f35
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5214
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