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1828 Jany 9
Law Amendment or Penal Code or Duelling extinguishable

In use would will be made of the Greek and Romans, or one of the China
. In principle: the development
it must be, each for the benefit of the no can be
given

In vain mention speak of the Greeks and Romans: they were
heathen: in vain, the Chinese, they are Atheists. Not to maximize
pleasure is the object not to minimize pain in beings susceptible of both, but
to avoid giving pain to an almighty being who is unsusceptible
of it, whose in whose benevolence is infinite, and who to give axiom to
it puts a veto and that a continually fruitless one upon
every act by which any addition can be made to the stock of
their of which happiness can be imposed.

In vain mention the greatest happiness principle –
and dear how can it be otherwise? is this principle. Not the greatest happiness
principle is it, but the
least-happiness principle
the greatest misery principle
that rules
not but

Prevented the imaginary evil must be; and for the
benefit of the prevention, no price in the shape of real evil – is
evil not imagined only but felt – can be too great.

The master vetos his suffrage of and mind –
his child-birth agency and her shame – for the wretched pray in pity
is left: the once existing but not yet that the the being – being the
be while no suffering in any shape has been felt this is the object a upon the object has
which in which stock of it the below has been exhausted. his
monopolized and absorbed

The serve Of the this mass of fictitious misery who can ? sum up the amount?
Be it what it may, it is to the of the the existing system that all
to the account of the existing system it must be placed. Grounded
it will continue to be, till the old stock of the generation population is has passed
has passed away: till their indolence will from the enquiry
otherwise than by without enquiry, an enquiry to which attention is
not only on the part of the finder but on the part of the
receiver, trusts, in the part of the field any the in any other
can not be forced; indolence will still from the enquiry,
would refuse the acknowledgement of disdain to acknowledge the the result if forced.

and , the helpless and being spread in
would be the of constant suffering to the whole family itself
not excepted. But for the suffering which the
moralist or : the still more implacable may be all existing happiness, the .


Identifier: | JB/016/189/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 16.

Date_1

1828-01-09

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

016

Main Headings

Folio number

189

Info in main headings field

law amendment or penal code or duelling extinguishable

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c2 / e2

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

5996

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