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1822 Jany 23
, if not good with
others that are so:
§.7. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires – that,
for the drawing of any such draught every draught to given in be
shall from beginning to end, if possible, the work of a single hand.
In the position here expressed two distinguishable ones will be
seen to be : namely
1. For each part every On each part of this all-comprehensive Code taken separately, hand employed
no more than one.
2. On all the parts So, in all the parts taken together.
For these two positions, the correspondent reasons though
in perfect harmony with each other, are altogether different.
For a general idea of the principle that applies to the first
of them, the one word probity may serve, so for that which applies
to the other of them, one the word consistency.
Probity, that is to say appropriate probity of intention
the appropriate moral aptitude spoken of in to a preceding section.
Consistency: that is to say conformity of each such point to
every other: probity of intention – consistency in the place and
mode of execution.
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