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1822 Aug. 13.
Constitut. Code

1.
Practice customary and
convenient placing at
the head of a work, words
giving an all-comprehensive
conception of the
matter of it.

2.
Expressions of this sort
here found needful.
1. First principles synonymous.
leading
principles.
2. The discourse expressive
of them in the
aggregate. First Lines:
Outlines in individual
and elementary propositions.
Positions,
Axioms, Aphorisms.

3.
If the endeavour be
to recommend a course
as proper to be pursued
for the attainmt.
of a certain end,
thereupon come Ends,
means, obstacles, helps,
counterforces to the obstacles.

4.
Object necessarily concomitant
to the course
proper to be pursued,
is do. actually pursued:
and unless for averting
change, discourse on the subject
is useless.

5.
Note as toought, is
proper &c.
Sole immediate subject
of such expression
is the state of
the expresser's own
mind: viz. of his understanding,
his feelings,
or his desires.

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6.
Thus – saying greatest
happiness ought to be
the end of every branch
of the law, the constitutional
in particular,
the only subject that
can be the immediate
subject matter of the
discourse is any wish
or any opinion: my
wish to see it so, or
my opinion that it
be best for the community
that it should
be so. The idea of its
being os produces pleasure
in me: of its not
being so, uneasiness.

7.
Subject matter of this
assertion, a matter of
fact: place, my mind
of its truth, to judge
belongs to others.
If, admitting the existence
of such desire,
reader desires my account
of its efficient
causes, I have it ready.

8.
Such being my desire,
if reader has the like,
he will naturally
read on: viz. for the
purpose of judging whether
the course indicated
by me is likely to
be conducive to the
accomplishment
of it: if not, reading
it can be of no use
to him.

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9.
Unless for opposition.
Example – his end, greatest
happiness of some
one, or some few.

10.
So, in saying of every
arrangement made
by a ruler the actual
object is his own greatest
happiness, sole immediate
subject matter
of my assertion is my
own opinion as above.
But of this opinion I
am prepared to shew
the causes.

11
Meantime, I see
work, giving to the greatest
happiness principle, as
above, the appellation of
dogmatism, meaning by
dogmatical language,
language which it is
his wish not to see employed.
Answer. If this be dogmatizing,
a man must dogmatize
or forbear writing:
for without thus
dogmatizing, no man
can write at all.

12.
In this my object is –
not so much to defend
myself, as to warn others:
viz. against every
thing which really is
dogmatizing.

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Date_1	1822-08-13	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-12
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