JB/036/006/001

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1821 April 26.
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1. Sympathy being for the moment laid out of the question, the
greater and more constant the need a man feels himself to have of the spontaneous or otherwise voluntary good offices and services of
other men, the stronger and more constant and more effective greater in proportion and his conduct is directed by a
correct view of his own interest, will be his disposition to render
good offices to, and have a regard to the feelings of, those other men.
But, the higher a man's place is in that gorgeous scale, the less is the
need he feels of any such spontaneous or otherwise voluntary good
offices and services: by force and intimidation, the man who has a
certain degree of power is enabled to extract, and does exact, from
the millions to whom he is an object of well-grounded abhorrence,
services beyond comparison much greater in quantity and value than by any good offices or manifestations of sympathy he could extract on his part
from those any to whom he is an object of sympathy and
love. In a word, in proportion as a man's place in that same
scale is high the quantity of the his external means of felicity possessed by him
will be independent of good behaviour on his part: of good behaviour
in relation to others: in the same proportion, his behaviour
as towards others will, on this account, be naturally the reverse
of good. Thus it is that the conduct of the most celebrated tyrants
in all countries and in all ages is seen to be the natural, to
which may be added in a certain degree the necessary research of
the place respectively occupied by them in this gorgeous scale.

Identifier: | JB/036/006/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-04-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-7
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	006	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / e3
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	10930
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