JB/036/226/001

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1823. April 17
Constitut. Code

At the expence of truth, (need it be said?) is all this
worship laudation and self-worship every atom of it. But the more
irrefragably true is the contrary position the more urgent
and universal is the urgency of the demand for
the contrary position. Thus it is that, urged by the
necessity which on all sides they are under on all sides of making men in continuing now
without doors general in the belief of the opposite non-existence of that which they are
seeing and feeling the effects of at every moment, public men men on
all sides concurr join in the inculcating of the errors correspondent
and opposite to the least important truth: in causing
men to believe that under a form of government in an
in it atmosphere of corruption so thoroughly corrupt that in which all who breath it are in truth
corrupt in a state of corruption, men are: to believe that purity fabled purity
which is not ever true where temptation is at its eminence is
at all never being in a situation in which ever true where it is at its maximum.

This being the language of rulers- Whan then is says the language of simple plain truth? That the
in spite of every thing whatsoever said, the general predominance
of self-regard over every other sort of regard is demonstrated
by everything that which is done: that this self-preference
is even an indispensable condition to the very existence of the
species: that in comparis the ordinary tenor of life in the breast in the
breasts of human being of ordinary mould self is every
thing, every thing person else all other persons added to all other
things put together are as nothing: that so far as this general habit
of self-preference is so far from being a just subject of denial
or even a reasonable cause of regret, that the existence of it
is an matter of indispensable condition not only to the well being, but to the very
existence being of the human species as well as of every other sensible
species: for and that if this would many minutes moments
consideration would not be necessary to the rendering this position
intuitively true certain, now the consignment followed up looked at of an
imaginary state of things in which the prime chief care
of each man's self instead of being lodged in his one breast, were
lodged in either lodged in some other single breast, or divided shared out among
a multitude more or
less considerable of other
breasts.

Identifier: | JB/036/226/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1823-04-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	3-4
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	226	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11150
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