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1823. April 27
Constitut. Code

By delusion understand the production of erroneous conceptions,
the effect of which is to engage men to concurr in the sinister sacrifice of the universal
to this The demand for In regard to corruption and
to this sinister interest.

The matter of or efficient cause of Corruption is the matter of good considered as
employed in giving effect to sinister interest, and
thereby to evil.

Delusion The word corruption is employed
In common usage the word corruption is wont
to be indiscriminately employed in the designation of
the operation in question and the results produced by

So likewise the word delusion. The ambiguity
is one that pervades the whole texture of the language:
of all Rome-sprung language: and not unprobably it
would be found in like manner to pervade the texture
of all other languages.

The word Delusion are is a word indiscriminately employed
to denote error or say an erroneous or false conception
and any the operation by which it has been produced

The errors the erroneous conceptions or opinions which operate as instruments in the
hand of misrule are reducible to two three heads.

1. That the maximization of the happiness of the
rulers s exclusively or preferably the right and proper
end of rule.

2. That the maximization of the happiness of
all the other members of the community, exclusively
or preferably with relation to their own is the end actually
pursued by those same rulers.

3. By the mixture of these As a reason or justification for the preference
which is as above is thought right and proper, to
to give to the particular happiness of the rulers in question
to that of the rest of the community, to that same erroneous
conception may be added another by which exclusively
or unpreferably with relation to the rest of the community, a stock
of virtue, moral and
intellectual, and
active taken together,
is ascribed to those
same rulers.

Identifier: | JB/036/242/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1823-04-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-8, 8a, 9-10
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	242	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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