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6 July 1816
Polit. D

N Nunquam libertas gratior exstat
Quam sub rege pio.

The passage observation (it is in Claudian) is a celebrated one,
it is a plausible, an engaging one: and very considerable
it can scarcely be doubted – has been its influence.

Good in poetry it is proportionably bad in political deontology.
In deontology the goodness of the observations depends
on their correctness: in that exactness of their agreement to with
the truth of thing the nature the circumstances particulars of
the case whatever it may be: with good poetry any no such
exactness is compatible.

In this passage two suppositions are contended: neither
of them ever exemplified: neither of them consistent with
the nature of the case. One is – that under a king: viz. the
only king of the only sort of government that on
that occasion could have been in view, liberty (and
this in the sense in which it is synonymous to political
security, security against bad government) liberty could
have place. The other is that in such a government
in the instance person of a king any such quality as poetry
if poetry by poetry be understood (as it must if any
signification be attached to the word) a disposition to
take the in the conduct of the government the maximum
of utility as the and for the predominantly ruling principle.

☞ Then go on to shew how necessarily self willed a man is that
there is rendered by what he to is continually bearing about his goodness, his
wisdom &c: that with this
political security is not
consistent, &c.
yes: the more
capable the more
the more agreeable.

Identifier: | JB/015/067/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Date_1	1816-07-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	067	Info in main headings field	polit. d.
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1813
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1813
Notes public		ID Number	5283
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