JB/039/102/001

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1824. April 12
Constitutional Code.

Virtue – why regarded as proporti produced by and
proportional to opulence.

Question
Question. Whence and in what way has this association been
formed? If the degree quantum aptitude in all its branches is not rather in the
direct ratio of than in the inverse ratio of the degree quantum of opulence
affluence whence came comes has come the notion of its being so to have obtained
such almost universal prevalence.

Answer
1. In this As to power Proportioned to a mans power, in his faculty
of doing evil and good and evil to others. Proportioned to the good he
has done to others will be the praise received from their gratitude.
Proportioned to the good he is expected to do to others, is will be the praise
he will receive from their lips. Proportioned to the evil he has it
in his power to do to others will be the quantum of respect and
praise received by him from their fear.

2. As to opulence. Proportioned The office of some
variation, the effects of opulence coincide with those of power.
Both confer the faculty of producing good and evil and good.
But power with the exception of power of patronage is most naturally
and extensively adapted to the purpose of working doing evil to others Opulence
to that of doing good to them. In the case of the man of opulence Proportioned to the he
has of doing good he has done to others will be is the praise he will receive
from their gratitude: proportioned to the good he is expected to
do to others will be is the praise he will receive from their lips.
Proportioned to the evil which at by means of such his opulence
it is in his power to do to others is the praise he will receive
from their fears: though by opulence it is only in a negative
way that it is in a man's power to do evil to others, namely
by wilfully forbearing to do to them the good he might otherwise have
done: or in an unimmediate way namely through the instrumentality
of those in whose power it is to do them evil in an
immediate way.

But by opulence, a man may do good to others
and by the mere expenditure of it does good to others be an amount
proportioned to that of his expenditure without manifesting exercising or possessing
appropriate aptitude in any shape with reference to any political situation
in particular without possessing aptitude in any amount in the shape of that
modification of moral
aptitude which is called
benevolence.

Identifier: | JB/039/102/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.
Date_1	1824-04-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	102	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles	note (a)
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	12109
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