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5 How to measure

the senses to the utmost degree exactness that can be required;
to wit in respect of by bulk and weight. Many is capable of being accurately devided. Now To these
parts therefore correspond so many degrees of pleasure:
And therefore is the [only] original measure of such pleasure as it belongs to the Legislator to bestow, and of such pain as is desirable from the same Source and thus it is that with under the restrictions above
specified we may measure with the utmost
exactness any such pleasure as is produced producable by
money, that is any such pleasure as in general it has within
the province of the legislator to bestow.

As pleasure is given by giving money, so is
pain by taking it away. This latter fact stands is equally
uncontroverted, and is equally matter of experience
with the former. For correspondent reasons and under
correspond restrictions terms [it is right to say that]. ceteris paribus the
[quantity of] money is the just direct and proper measure
and the only proper measure of that sort of pain which is produced by means of
money. But Now money, or has been said is the only
current and universal means in the hands of the
Legislator of producing pleasure. At the same
time it is not by any means the only current
and universal means of producing pain. With respect to pain It is
not an universal means of in itself: nor is it
even so general as, other - means which the nature
of mankind affords. # # For to any man money may be given. But from him who has no money, no money can be taken. At the same time For of producing pain there is
another means which is really strictly universal: for every
man has a body.

Money then Of such pleasure then as is produced
by the bestowal of money, and of such pain
as is produced by the taking away of money it away, money is

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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l v g
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