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12 June 1816
Polit. Deontology
Locutions subservient to misrule are locutions expressive
of the spurious ends of standards of right and
wrong – the spurious ends of government.
Order – Good Order – Regular Government – Legitimate
Government – Practice of wise ancestors
Locutions subservient to good rule are locutions
expressive of the genuine – and ever acknowledged standard of right and wrong,
expressive of the only proper ultimate and all comprehensive end
of government with its several ramifications.
Maximum of public national happiness felicity greatest happiness of
the greatest number – Security for the possession of
subsistence, for the maximum of opulence consistent with
universal subsistence – for the maximum of exemption
from injury in all its shapes from calamity in
all its shapes, for equality in so far as not
being inconsistent with security for all those other
blessings it is subservient to the maximum of happiness
in all those other shapes.
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