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1823. May 22
Constitut. Code

Only therefore in so far as his interest, thence his desires
and endeavours, concurrs with their own is it the interest of the
greatest number of the aggregate number of non-rulers, that
in the trusts of a ruler whose interest power is not by the means
in question placed located in a state of dependence on their own, any
superior preeminent quantity stock of intellectual power should have
place. For whatsoever be the amount of it – not to the maximization
of their felicity but to the maximization of his own
at the expence and by the sacrifice of theirs will the exercise
of all such power in his breast on his part be generally speaking on every each occasion be directed applied.
That which on his part instance it is their interest to witness is – that
sort and degree of intellectual weakness by the effect of which instead of the
accomplishment should be the failure of those same sinister
endeavours: in such sort that while occupied in the endeavour
to make to its utmost possible extent the sacrific sinister sacrifice
he may conduct himself with such may be the imprudence
with which his endeavour was applied, that by means of the resistance suffering produced in it
opposed to it produced by it the political power this employed be
may be made to drop out of his hands. That in the situation
emp occupied by him there are circumstances the tendency
of which is to give existence and encrease to this useful weakness,
there will be a more particular occasion to mention presently.

The result is In a word – that intellectual power, not applied to the
end to which appropriate moral aptitude bears reference, is not with
reference to that end, appropriate intellectual aptitude: applied
to the end, opposite to that to which appropriate moral aptitude
is applied, it is the inaptitude opposed to appropriate mor
intellectual aptitude.

Identifier: | JB/037/144/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-05-22	Marginal Summary Numbering	21*, 22
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	144	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e8
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	11359
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