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1822 July 7
Constitut. Code

In vain would anyone the Monarch say – of such importance is the
subject matter in our eyes and such the danger and probability that notwithstanding
its importance it will unless the the course in question be
taken, be unattended to or unbelief or false belief in relation
to it be inculcated and embraced, that to avoid th so great an
evil it is in our judgments eyes necessary to take this course.

Happiness you yourselves insist upon it is at stake: the happiness
not in this life only but in another: in another life, the
difference between the extreme of happiness felicity and the extreme of misery,
the happiness and misery not of this or that individual only, but
What of all without exception. What? and are we then to believe –
to believe one and all – and upon no other proof evidence than your own
assertion contradicted by your own practice, that there are so many
individuals to no one of whom is his own happiness so dear to himself
as it is to you? his own happiness in this life, his own happiness
in another life? the differe in another life the difference between happiness in the extreme
and misery in the extreme utter

Oh but he will be deceived: if the on matter be not laid
before him in a manner he no thought notion on the subject will be
entertain in the relation to the subject: if it be not laid before him
in the manner we prescribe, the notions entertained by him on the subject
will be erroneous, and in such sort erroneous as to 1.noxious,
noxious to himself as well as to and in in indefinite number
to others.

No notions? which on a subject in which according to you in your own eyes
or at least according to your own lips the difference between the extreme of
happiness and the extreme of misery in it every man's case is shown depends
not only will he himself will of himself be indifferent but so will everyone else? Is it then
to be supposed that in this case no one will rise up to state
to him the peril he is in, and offer with or without pay, offer
to show him how he may deliver himself from it. If by in the night
time in a dark street, a house is discovered or thought to be on
fire, is there any want ever on the part of those who have discovered or
think they have discovered it any want of the humanity or exertion sufficient
to raise a cry of Fire, Fire! or of common sense on the part of those whom it
concerns any want of the common sense necessary to their attending to it?


Identifier: | JB/037/082/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.

Date_1

1822-07-07

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

037

Main Headings

constitutional code rationale

Folio number

082

Info in main headings field

constitut. code rationale

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

b6 / e6

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

c wilmott 1819

Marginals

Paper Producer

andreas louriottis

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1819

Notes public

ID Number

11297

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