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1823. April 4
Constitut. Code

Objection 2. Any such degree of strictness is altogether in
any such high situations, altogether without a precedent.

Answer. Nothing can be more natural than that it should be.
At any rate Its being so may at any rate for the purpose of the argument be admitted
without difficulty.

In the case of the medical practitioner, the degree of
closeness in attendance on the part of the functionary is determined partly by the nature of the case
partly by the patient: in the case of the legislative functionary
it is determined by himself in conjunction with others in the instance of every one
of whom the same sinister interest has place in conjunction with the same
power of fulfilling its dictates, has places. It is determined by
a set of men who work in exception feel themselves compleatly
at liberty to sacrifice the aggregate interest of the whole number of all
their fellow countrymen – the aggregate interest and happiness
of the whole human species to any the smallest portion atom of personal
and self-regarding interest, and who are in the constant and
uninterrupted habit of making and conscionably
this sinister sacrifice.

This objection, supposing it regarded as peremptory and conclusive
in this instance, would be so in the instance of every thin
measure almost without with some exception, that had for its object the
augmentation of the happiness of the greatest number,
accompanied, as it could not but be, with a defalcation, to an
amount more or less considerable from the happiness of the ruling
and influential few.

So far from hav In the case of the medical practitioner functionary, if
any evil results from the of want of adequate promptitude, the in such
sort that the patient suffers, the functionary by whose fault it was
produced is a in the suffering sufferers suffers along with him,
for he cannot avoid doing so. In the case of the legislative functionary whatsoever evil befalls the
patient perhaps the whole population of the Statem perhaos te whole population
of the species, the patient suffers alone: the person in whose misconduct is the cause
of the evil in whose misconduct
the evil has its cause
does not suffer along with him: Why? for it has been
in his power to exempt
himself from all suffering,
and so accordingly he has done.

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Date_1	1823-04-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-9
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	348	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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