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8 June 1816
Political Deontology

In hearing mention made of a book in which the
principle of utility had been set up as the standard, and only
standard of right and wrong in matters of government,
wh. cried the Lord Chancellor Rosslyn
it is a dangerous principle: and regarding it
in that light he would hear no more of it.
Till one For many years this observation
had never presented itself in any other character than
that of a nonsensical one invoking in it a
and in : and having for its cause
an indistinctness of conception and nothing else.

When at length the opposition between that less extensive
interest of which the individual that class of person to which interest of
that statesmen made belonged and the all comprehensive
interests of the whole population of the country came
to be clearly understood, then it was and not
till then that the above remark was seen by and
to have for its cause not indistinctness of conception
but distinctness: and to in its import
not to involve any self-contradiction at all, but
to be expression of a very determinate and clear
judgment. By him, (and of this lull of this observation
that remark of his is was of itself sufficient proof)
by time it was most clearly understood that between his
individual self-regarding interest and the social interest of the public
at large, the opposition was not real but . The danger he had in view was accordingly not
imaginary but real. Supposing the interests of the whole community is
to be taken for the standard
and acted upon as such
the consequence would have
been a defalcation, and
that in no inconsiderable
act committed from the mass of power, and the matter of wealth then and now attached to his and so many other situations to which his
and is by community of interest, and inter of those affections which spring out of it.

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Date_1	1816-06-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	015	Info in main headings field	political deontology
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1813
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1813
Notes public		ID Number	5231
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