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1822 Aug 13
Constitut. Code
If, as above, so it be, that in the situation of a ruler whatsoever
that situation be, the conduct of no man can at any moment reasonably be expected
to be governed determined by any interest that at that same moment stands in opposition
to that which in his conception is his own individual interest in follows that for causing
him it to take that any direction in which it will be
subservient to the universal interest the nature of the man
the nature of the case affords no other method than that
which consists in the bringing of the particular interest
of rulers in into accordance with the universal interest.
Here then we have a third principle of the first
rank in addition to the two former ones.
Call it the General directive Means-prescribing principle: or say the
Alliance prescribing the United interest prescribing
principle of interest interest prescribing principle.
This the
To make a third, join the former two.
The first declares what is ought to be the next, what ought to is
be the last the means of bringing what is into accordance accordance
with what ought to be. by causing what is to be what as it
ought to be
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