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But now comes error, the seat and source of which is
not in the judgment but in the will. It has its root in the nature
of man – in human selfishness. More advanced age takes
every occasion to repel competition and encroachment from
less advanced – the going generation feels with uneasiness the coming
generation treading on its heels. Not inconsiderable is the support
given to sinister policy in public life by the propensity operating
thus in private ad well as public life – in a word, in all life.
Who else is so near to me as I am to myself? What is all the rest of the world
and its happiness to me, in comparison of myself and those who on any
particular account are dear to me? who so dear to me as myself
and mine? Questions these which every individual is perpetually
putting to himself; and who but himself is there who is always in readiness
to give the answers to them? And the longer a man lives, the longer
he has not been putting to himself these questions?

So much as to the 25 years. As to the forty years, as it
comes came not (This exclusion) from the greatest happiness principle,
with reason for the guidance of its application, whence
then did it come? Answer – From the profoundest
Machiavellism – mischief done in greatest quantity
with least appearance: a principle by which while the
quantity of mischief produced is maximized, so is the concealment
given to it. The What was thus seen is that the further
a man is advanced in life the stronger will be his propensity
to yield to corruption in all its shapes, – in all those
shapes in which such of you as have taken in hand my
letters on the subject of Second Chambers have seen delineated:
to yield to corruption in all those shapes, and in
and by so doing to yield himself to be an actively as
well as passively obedient slave to absolutism.

Identifier: | JB/023/102/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 23.
Date_1	1830-12-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	023	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	102	Info in main headings field	jb to france
Image	003	Titles	jeremy bentham to his fellow-citizens of france / letter iii / on the time of full age, more particularly in the case of a deputy of the people
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1 / e6
Penner	james mill	Watermarks	street & co 1830
Marginals		Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1830
Notes public		ID Number	7973
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