JB/036/183/001

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1821. May 10. 1822 Aug 9.

In regard to fiction two sources and of use and of service require to be
noted. One is, the extent of the sinister service rendered: the other is, by the extent of
the class of persons to whom the service is rendered.

2. In respect of the nature extent of the service rendered, the use of fiction
may be distinguished into general and particular and general.

By the particular use understand the particular benefit, which on the
occasion of such fiction, powers results to the class or classes of persons functionaries
served by it; by the general use, the benefit which accrues to all of them
in the aggregate from the general principle of demoralization, which it contributes
to establish: viz that to in regard to human actions in general, right &
wrong, proper ground for approbation and disapprobation depends
— not on the influence of the action or the greatest happiness of the
greatest number, but on the practice, consequently on the will, & thence
or the interest, real or supposed, of the aggregate of those same particular
classes. Of the establishment of this principle of demoralization,
the object and the effect is the causing men to behold,
not merely with indifference, but even with approbation — in the
first place, the perpetration of injustice, and in a word of political
evil in all its shapes; and, in the next place, the employing
as an instrument in the commission of such mischief
falsehood — wilful deliberate and self-conscious falsehood — in a
word mendacity: the practicing on this occasion and for this purpose
that vice which when by individuals not armed with power
it is employed to purposes much less extensively mischievous
is by these same men habitually and to a vast extent visited
with the severest punishment. Now go to p.3.

Identifier: | JB/036/183/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-05-19	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-6
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	183	Info in main headings field	constitut. code first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e3
Penner	john flowerdew colls; richard doane	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11107
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