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1825 July 12
Constitutional Code

Art. Amongst the instruments of delusion employed
for reconciling the people to the dominance of the one and the
many is the use of abstract term device of employing
for the designation of persons and classes of persons – not
instead of the ordinary and appropriate denominations –
the names of so many f abstract fictitious entities, contrived
for the purpose. Take the following examples
1. Instead of Kings, or the King the Crown and the Throne.
2. Instead of Lawyers, the Law.
3. Instead of Judge or Judges – the Court.
3. Instead of Churchmen, the Church – sometimes the Alter.
4. Instead of Rich men or the Rich – Property

Of this device the effect and object and effect is
that any unpleasant idea that might in the mind of
of the hearer or reader might happen no associated
with the idea of the person or the class, is disengaged from
it: and in lieu the stead of the more or less obnoxious individual
individuals the object presented is a creature of
the fancy, by the idea of which, as in poetry, the imagination
is tickled, a phantom which by means of the power
with which the individual or the class is cloathed, is constituted
an object of respect and veneration.

In the three first cases the nature of the division
is comparatively obvious.

In the fourth case if it seems scarcely to have been observed.
But such has been the perceived or not perceived by
the speakers in question has been the motive and first efficient cause
of the prodigious attachment importance attached by so many
to the term property, as of the value of it were intrinsic,
and nothing else had any value: as if men were made of
property not property for men.

I know A man might be mentioned (the Abbi Merillet) whose who
labours in the cause of mankind had really been serviceable to mankind,
had would not hear of the
greatest happiness principle
or the principle
of utility, bu for
the solution of all problems
in the legislative
introduced in some way
or other the word property,
pronounced in course of it were a conversation: pronounced of course with eminent emphasis,
the maintenance of property was according to him the only end of government.

Identifier: | JB/037/418/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1825-07-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	418	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	11633
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