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Introduction

If it be assumed that Virtue should be the rule and happiness the object of human action, – and happiness

the object of human action, – he who shows how the instrument may best be
applied to the production of the end and has a right to be considered as among the how the end may be accomplished in the
greatest of human benefactors to our race – greatest obtainable degree is undoubtedly
engaged in the service exercise & entitled to the recompense of virtue, and considerable the its fair portion of its recompense
No small service will be done to mankind if laws can be found applicable discovered suited to all the circumstances of life, – if the habitual
power can be communicated to the honest inquirer of answering well & wisely that so theoften embarrasing question which occurs
to every one of us every day – every hour of our existence – what indeed ought ought I to do? – no small well why service can be to mankind I a How shall I act? & why? The pages which I have the privilege of
now introducing to the world have are calculated, I think trust to illumine the darkness of my own mind parts of the field of morals
with a flood of light – they have enabled me to unravel many difficulties entanglements –
to solve many difficulties, – they have made & to create for me a straight & smooth parts of the in a field doubts of the duty where I could find I had found only the paths were had been rugged & torturous before & perplexing paths in force – and
in a word they have solved all these and guides incapable of extracting me I have found as cases of conscience whose embarrassments have not been cleared
away by opposing those great principles of morality which will be are placed & to contribute much satisfaction to the inquirers <add>searchers after truth & virtue.
developed in the following pages. The valuable MSS was were put into my
hands to be used employed as I might deem most fit, without reservation or
restriction as to the manner of their publication. The extreme indifference of its their extra-ordinary author to what
is denominated Literary Fame stands out in strange remarkable prominent contrast not to that
anxiety which he has never hesitated to express that his opinions might
go "careering through the world". He has always been rather desirous of digging
out and refining the ore than of stamping it with his own image &
superscription. Not that futurity will forget its benefactor, or fail in honor due
to him who must, – and will exercise a mighty influence on its condition. Of
Bentham's writings it that may fitly be said what which Milton proclaimed of one of
his almost forgotten Volumes, that they have it numbered the strong high intellects of his
day & generation – strongly have they Our author's Doctrines have strongly moved the philosophic few & their
course is rapidly opening & widening downwards among the improving many. The light
Scoffers have met him may have insulted him in his progress, but where is
the sage who has scorned, or who has failed to having listened has been wanting
in reverence & gratitude Hitherto he has been to the man who first made Legislation a Science.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	135	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	introduction
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f4
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	m 1826
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1826
Notes public		ID Number	5351
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