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1821. April 26. Constit. Cod. First Lines (2.) Constitutional Finance

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1. Moral aptitude
to confess or disposition
to promote greatest happiness
Moral inaptitude, or
disposition to promote
personal and thus
particular happiness
at the expense of
general.

1. As to appropriate moral aptitude. If, in the breast
of the individual in question, instead of appropriate aptitude in this
shape, the opposite inaptitude have place be found, [be the degree of appropriate
intellectual aptitude and active talent ever so great,] the result will be so it is that,
by any extraordinary degree of appropriate intellectual aptitude and
appropriate active talent, the aggregate quantity of appropriate aptitude,
so far from being augmented, will be diminished. Appropriate
moral aptitude consists, on this occasion, in the disposition to promote,
to the utmost, the greatest happiness of the greatest number: the inaptitude,
correspondent and opposite to this branch of appropriate aptitude,
is the disposition to promote the particular interest happiness of the
individual in question and his particular connections, at the
expence, and by the sacrifice, of a portion, to any amount larger,
of that other and more extensive interest and happiness. [But, the greater
the degree of appropriate intellectual aptitude and correspondent
active talent the individual possesses, the greater is the degree of
facility he will possess with respect to the carrying into effect
that disposition of his which, by the supposition, has place: viz.
the sacrificing disposition to make sacrifice of the greatest good
of the greatest number to his own private interests according to the
conception that happens to be entertained by him in relation to
it.

The higher a man's place is in the scale of external felicity,
the lower, not the higher, will naturally, not to say necessarily,
be his place in the scale of appropriate moral aptitude as here
explained.
1. Sympathy

Identifier: | JB/036/005/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-04-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	5
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	005	Info in main headings field	const. code first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmot 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	10929
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