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The course which Bentham has marked out for himself taken is one which
must approve itself to every honest inquirer well-intentioned mind. to employ such language as would convey his ideas with the greatest precision. A vague phraseology is necessarily
the parent of vague associations ideas. To In the minds of the well-disposed it is a source
of confusion – to in the hands of the ill-disposed an instrument of mischief. Right & wrong –
justice & injustice are terms susceptible of very different interpretations. They
may be used – they have been used, according to the caprice or the selfish
interest of men for the production alike of good & evil. Resolved into their yet they form
so large a practic part of the machinery of expression denote, for the meaning which is commonly attached to them – they nearly
most part that When closely examined they will generally be found for the most part,
nothing more than an the expression of an the opinion more or less influential of him who employs them – &
their only value & fit application will be found to depend on their capacity to stand the
test of some other principle. The language of common parlance must, before
it can be made use of for the communication of correct ideas be translated into
the language of Utility – or in other words the language of happiness &
unhappiness – of pleasures & of pains. Into these elements all moral results
questions ultimately resolve themselves. Here is a point beyond which there
is no proceeding advancing. If there be a greater good than happiness, let him who
has made the discovery produce it as a reward – if there be a greater evil than misery let
the inventor of it employ it for the ends of punishment. In the
Dictionary of pain & pleasure, our moralist has found all the
machinery of his craft.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	136	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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