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Yet never. It is the characteristic of a good measure
i.e. to a any measure the effect of which if carried out
would be to be beneficial to the interests of the greatest
number to be capable of being advocated with advantage
and not to be capable of being opposed with
advantage, by appropriate arguments.

But every measure which, though at the
expence of the sinister interest of the ruling few is in a predominant degree serviceable
to the interest of the subject many is a good measure.
It is therefore such a measure as is in the very nature
of it capable of being advocated with advantage
by appropriate arguments: and curiously as above
it is of the nature of appropriate arguments to be
in a peculiar of not exclusive degree to be servicable
to good measures, differenciable to bad ones.

Thus Of this state of things then a consequence
is that it is against the interest of the ruling few
that appropriate argum in contradistinction to inappropriate,
appropriate arguments should be in general good
repute acceptance should be regarded with a favourable eye
should be in the habit of obtaining a general acceptance.

And in general the principle of general utility as above
explained being the source from which all appropriate
arguments can not but be drawn, it is the interest of
persons so circumstanced, that the use appeals made to the principle
of utility should be as few as possible, that it be regarded in as
unfavourable a light
as possible and that
accordingly alon as often
as were a good measure
is carried into effect it
should be advocated rather on the ground of some inappropriate argument, than on the ground of the appropriate one, and so if a bad measure be rejected
it shall be rejected rather on the ground of some inappropriate argument, and not on the ground of the appropriate one.

Identifier: | JB/015/051/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	051	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1813
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1813
Notes public		ID Number	5267
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