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1823. May 2. Leading Principles
S.1. Ends arrived at
1.
1. All-embracing end
of this Constitution,
maximizing national
felicity, in so far as depends
on Government.
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2. Of all, in so far as no
competition: of greatest
number, in so far as
competition has place.
3.
2. Sole right and proper,
primary, all-comprehensive
and direct end,
the above: right and
proper secondary all-embracing
but collateral end, minimization
of expence.
4.
All felicity is good: but
all government is in
itself an evil: good, only
relatively, and in so far
as it excludes greater
evil: evil produced by
it in this view at it's
expence.
5.
Specific and jointly
all-embracing ends —
1. Subsistence
2. Abundance
3. Security
4. Equality
6.
[Exposition?]
Matter of subsistence
every thing by want
of which, positive suffering
would be produced.
In so far as distinct
from security, time it
refers to is but one instant.
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7.
Applied therefore to subsistence,
maximization
can afford nothing but
extent, i.e. number,
of the individuals.
8.
Abundance, an instrument
of felicity. 1. on it's
own account. 2. as security
for subsistence.
9.
Security is 1.for good;
2. against evil. Interconvertible
the expressions —
fugitive the distinction:
such the inconvenience,
perhaps
irremediably, attached to
language. But to some
purposes the one, to others
the other; is most convenient.
10.
The good for which security
is may be for,
1. Property: i.e. matter of
subsistence & abundance
2. Power
3. Reputation.
4. Conditions in life.
Power: viz. 1. domestic:
2. political.
Of condition in life, the
good is composed of
property, power & reputation.
11.
Security for persons is
security against the
evils, of which a man's
person may be the seat:
person, includes body
and mind.
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12.
Evil is 1. from calamity,
i.e. non human agency:
2. from hostility: i.e. human
agency.
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Principal shapes of calamity
1. Inundation
2. Conflagration. 3. Pestilence.
4. Famine: though
to all, may human agency
be instrumental.
14.
[Note?] Add collapsion
when in large masses.
15.
Hostility is of enemies: i.e.
1. External. 2.Internal.
16.
Internal adversaries are
evil doers. 1. Unofficial.
2. Official.
17.
Unofficial, are stiled malefactors,
offenders, delinquents,
criminals: these are resistible:
mostly with success.
18.
Official, namely the head, &
all inferiors in so far as
supported by the head, are
irresistible. These have no
such dyslogistic names.
19.
In a community, evil is as
magnitude and extent:
magnitude as intensity and duration,
or extent as number of sufferers.
20.
Minute in all these elements
is the evil by which the community
may suffer from
unofficial compared with
from official adversaries
yet is this last evil over-
looked: the authors of that
covered with reproach;
of this, with praise.
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The sole and actual end
of government, in so far as it is good.
Actual desired ends of all
government, the felicity of
the governor.
In so far as the governed are governors,
the right and proper end
and the actual end coincide.
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Subsistence, though the
matter of it is included
in the matter of abundance,
yet, considered
as an end in view no
more can be distinguished
from it: it is only
the expence of abundance
that subsistence, can
in request of maximized, be
managed.
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