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Last of all comes the reign of Justice – the reign of utility.
Under its auspices the work of the legislator will be lightened
and the moralist E49-II will assume many of his the Legislator's functions. The
Great Court of public opinion will take charge of the
decision of many questions which are now in the domain of
penal judicature. The legal lines which separate right and
wrong will be more clearly & more broadly defined as the
predominance of the great social interest breaks down those
barriers which have been raised for sinister purposes or left
by the ignorant traditions of ancient days. Delightful it is to
contemplate the progress of virtue & of happiness – to see
them subduing by mighty efforts, – or by quiet influences
more & more of the domain where thefalse standards maxims of
private & public morality had so long ruled</del held undisputed
sway. Yet more delightful is it to anticipate a period
when the moral code of grounded on the greatest happiness principle
will be the Code of Nations – teaching them in their
vast political concerns to create no useless misery – & to
make their patriotism subservient to the demands of
benevolence. As knowledge has in its progress gathered
families & tribes once hostile into the regions of common
interest & mutual affection – so it will in its further
triumphs fling the girdle of beneficence around now-separated
nations. As the crimes of violence have given way diminished under
the rebuke of more enlightened opinion – as that comes of opinion
found in acquiring strength will ultimately not fail to act upon the
other departments of improbity – who can doubt that
War, – the maximizer of every crime – the condensation of
every violence – the picture of every horror – the representative of every folly – will at last
be overwhelmed & annihilated by the mighty &
resistless influence of truth virtue & felicity.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	361	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f36
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	c wise 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	5577
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