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1822 Aug. 12 Constitut. Code 4

If human beings were so circumstanced if such were the
condition of human beings that the happiness of no one being
comes in competition with that of any others, that is to say
if the happiness of each or of any one could receive increase to
an unlimited amount with it without being the effect of producing
decrease in the happiness of any others, then the above
exposition might serve without limitation or explanation.
But in every occasion the happiness of every individual is
coming in liable to come into competition with the happiness of every other. If for
example in a house containing two individuals, for a space of
a month there be a supply of food barely sufficient to continue the
for that space of time the existence of one of them, not merely the
existence happiness of each but the existence of each comes stands in
competition with, and is incompatible with the existence of the
other.

Hence it is, that to serve for all occasions, to the expression instead of saying
the greatest happiness of all it becomes necessary to substitute say
the expression the greatest happiness of the greatest number

If however instead of the word happiness the word interest
is employed, the phrase maximal interest may be employed as
corresponding as well indifferently to the interest of the greatest number as
to the interest of all.

Insert between the import of the word happiness and the import
of the word interest

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Identifier: | JB/036/094/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-08-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	10-11
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	094	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a10 / b5 / d8 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11018
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