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1822 July 4
Constitut. Code

On In the part of an individual of the that same community
what was it , those this same desires desire, adverse as they are to
the greatest felicity of every other have place: but the power not
being added to the the

In the breast instance of each individual member of that same
community, whatever it be, this same sinister desire,
the desire of making to the profit of his own happiness, the
sinister sacrifice, has place: but in the instance of no such
individual has the power any place: to his purpose the incorporeal instruments
requisite are wanting: and these being wanting, the corporeal instruments
are so too. In his endeavours to secure himself against
depredation and oppression, each man finds all others in general disposed
to become co-operators and supporters: become as for
against depredation and oppression to at his own expence prejudice no
man one of them can find any means of security that will but such as cannot but afford the like
security to every other individuals in general. But in any
endeavours to he might use to exercise depredation and
oppression at the expence at of others in large multitudes
no man, who not having the incorporeal instruments, has
not at his command the corporeal ones, will find co-operators
and supporters in number and form adequate to the purpose: accordingly in
this case; the power not being added to the desire, the corresponding
evil effect does not take place.

Though in all men breasts these same propositions must be
acknowledged to have place, and in all men the correspondent
desire have place accordingly, and upon occasion to a greater
or less extent become productive of correspondent acts go on into act yet the difference between
the strength of the desire in the one situation and the strength
of the desire in the other situation is prodigious. In the case
of those desires which have for their object corporeal gratification or exemption
from corporeal suffering, the desire force of the desire is not taken away or lessened
by the absence of the hope, or say by the absence of expectation of
the power of gratifying them: witness the desires of hunger
and thirst. But in the case of those desires which have for
their object the any such complex good as is denoted by the appellation
of power, or money, in the quantities attached to political situations the absence of the corresponding expectation is capable of keeping
the desire in a state of a state in which it is altogether void
of efficiency compleatly inefficient, and to the individual himself, for want of attention to what passes in his own mind, imperceptible.

Identifier: | JB/037/072/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1822-07-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	2-3
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	072	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b2 / c2 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	11287
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