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intractable, who knows but that in order to accommodate conform
the work ] to its' peculiarities, it might
be necessary to make one a material change even
in the distribution of the several parts of the work? As
new arrangements require oftentimes new terms
to express them by, so the impossibility of finding
a fit term or of making one that shall pass
current, may force a translator to leave abandon
the arrangement given in the original, and
set up a new one in its' stead.

But who are you it may will be said, who
are for instructing legislators, and who take for
granted that your work will find its' way into
all languages? The answer is, that I who Iam
however natural a question, is altogether an
immaterial one; the material question is, what
the book is, not who the author. This like every
other human enterprise has two handles: it
will be taken up and regarded in two opposite
points of view by each person according as
the love of toward the species or jealousy towards spleen against
the individual predominates in his bosom. Considered
in the light in which men of narrow mind

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minds delight to view it, every attempt to do
service to mankind, is a mark of arrogance; and,that this arrogance
is the greater, in proportion to the extent
and importance of that service. If this
be arrogance, arrogant I will always be, and may
I be always thought so. I confess my the change
and glory in my shame: maleficia mea, Quirites,
haec sunt. I have pinned my own private interest
(if so vain pitiful and so impertinent a concern considerationan object must needs be
dragged forth into view) upon the skirts of those
of the public: of my own country the whole nation
of which I am a member have the happiness: of the commonwealth
of nations states of which my own that nation is a member.
I have betaken myself to that line in which it is
only by doing service or at the strictest by being
thought to have done service to mankind, [even
to vast parcels of that great at
] that I can obtain so much as any particle of that
unsubstantial reward, as some are pleased to
call it, [who it seems are ignorant of its value]
reputation.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	027	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	046	Info in main headings field	preface
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9136
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