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28 June 1816
Polit. Deontology

§. 2 Non compliance of the standard almost universal.

Then however comes another difficulty: an difficu from the
opposite quarter a difficulty of the opposite cast.

Why labour there be from the existence of the sun at noon-day?
– as if any one person could sincerely think of setting up a different
standard? as if by any person any serious thought could be
entertained of setting up any objection to this? as if this
and no other were not the standard appealed to by on every occasion
by every individual and in every debate?

The answer to this is – No: the a in the nature of
any such universality of acceptance is in a deplorable degree unfounded there is great and lamentable
error. True: in most or a as a standard it
in on most occasions and perhaps by all persons appealed
to: but in the character of the and exclusively
proper standard stand small indeed is would the number
of persons be found at whose hands it has obtained
or could expect to obtain a sincere and unqualified
acceptance.

With a very few exceptions indeed by all persons
at any rate on any occasion in which it is proposed
to apply theory to practice, the aggregate mass of the
population is divided into two component masses: the
one composed of those whose happiness is either exclusively
entitled to regard either exclusively or at least preferably,
the other of those whose happiness is either not entitled to
any regard or if to any only regard, to regard in no other than an
inferior degree.

Not that between these two masses any other, any
permanent line is ever drawn or undertaken to be drawn –
political discussion in the present state of the occasion, to no
such precision and determinateness is commonly to be found in political
discussion. On each any
given occasion, according
to the nature of the occasion
and the purpose, each
person would be apt to
draw the line in a different
place. But the
idea of the divis distinctive correspondent
division would not be the less entertained and acted upon.

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Date_1	1816-06-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	059	Info in main headings field	polit. deontology
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