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The Principle of Utility, then — in order to preserve its influence may How to preserve its influence
be habitually kept in view, — and to this end

The sure way to keep it from slipping out of mind is in its expression of
every maxim subordinate to it, to let its relation to it that maxim be seen. — Let it not be thought Not to think it
sufficient that the reason assigned for a law practice is in itself conformable to this
principle — but let such unless such conformity be expressed upon the face of it, and brought forward contrary habitually surely often and brought forward
into view for examination & approval.

swerve from
the path of
utility...
... turns
aside neither
in the right
nor the left.

persons
who have
not climbed
those heights
on which it
utility has fixed its
throne.

This is the only expedient to prevent persons not sufficiently imbued
with the principle, from drawing consequences from the reason in question as it stands being led astray by the despotic dogmas of asceticism — or
considered under a different aspect. It should have but one aspect, but one front, and
the undoubted sympathies of a miscalcluating & misdirected benevolence, let the moralist
that regard it as his ... ... ... as steadily to its ruling principle, throughout all its inflexions as steadily, as the
Turnsole looks upon to the Sun.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	148	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	the principle of utility
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	j rump 1831
Marginals		Paper Producer	ann elizabeth lind; franz ludwig tribolet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
Notes public		ID Number	5364
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