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1822 Aug. 24
Constitut. Code

Intimidation and remuneration allurement are employed,
both of them by Good Rule and by Misrule. But though
in this they agree, there is one thing point there is in which
they not only differ are not only different but opposite. This is the quantity
of the matter which they respectively employ. By Good rule
as in the one case so in the other it is minimized: it is the least possible: by
Misrule, it is maximized.

By Good Rule intimidation is minimized – Why? Even Because
to threatening to produce evil would be in vain, if the
with more or less frequency the threat were not executed – the evil
produced: and because even the fear of evil as itself evil;
from the fear of sufferance actual sufferance is inseparable.

By Good Rule allurement – prospect of remuneration is
also minimized. Why? Because in government evil good
is not procured but by men of evil: the matter of good by
means of the matter of evil. Indeed to no small extent the
matter of good and the matter of evil are one and the same
thing. Witness wealth: witness power. By the receipt of wealth
pleasure enjoyment is produced: by the loss of it wealth: and so likewise
in regard to power. By the hand government neither the one nor the other
can be given but in proportion as it is taken.

Hence the aphorisms paradoxical in form, not less true than
useful in substance. To reward is to punish: liberality if
is depredation. The best one that government can make of
money in the hands of the lawful possessors is – to leave it where it
is.

Identifier: | JB/036/188/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-08-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	8-10
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	188	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11112
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