JB/039/104/001

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1824. April 11
Constitutional Code.

Few vulgar errors are so general – generally embraced – few so mischievous –
as that which regards men as entitled to meritous a degree
of esteem love, and esteem and love, and thence of confidence, in proportion to their
degree of their opulence. For, the greater the degree of a man's
opulence, the less is the need he stands in of the good essence and
good will of others: the less will therefore will be the degree of his exertion, if any for the purpose of obtaining that goodwill, and thence of his benevolence as towards them, and, so far as depends upon benevolence,
of his beneficence in relation to them: and on the other hand, the greater the love he will give to his self
which in his dealings with them he will give to his self-regarding
regarding and antisocial affections.

Grounds Taking advantage of the vulgar error, unbended
is the confidence, which when possessed of a extra quantum
of opulence or power, he will at the a man will naturally be disposed to claim at their hands: and, the
more egregiously it is he desire and intention to belong to such betray
whatever confidence he it to with the whatever portion of such confidence he can contrive to obtain the greater the is
the presumption and arrogance with which he will desired demand it and endeavour to extend
it. The more chances in his for confidence But the more clamorous he a man is in this his demand of
of confidence and the more blind and implicit the confidence thus demanded,
the more In a surely and thoroughly is he of
it. The greater the quality of power and wealth a can his man has
already contrived to get into his hands, the sharper will be his appetite
for more; and, but for indolence, the more strenuous his endeavour endeavours
to obtain it; to obtain it and whether it be by exertion or without exertion that he has obtained it, and,the more profound will be his indifference
to the suffering, which which others are afflicted by the course
taken by him to obtain it: and on any occasion the aggregate greater the ratio
and that will at which by in proportion to the confidence reposed in him thus obtained
his power remains curious, the more arrogant and vehement
will be his claim to claim to greater and greater confidence. His reaction accordingly, to use
the current language, are always on every occasion of the perception water.
composed of pure benevolence, acting upon the a sale at the
level commensurate with the extent of his country and its population
pure benevolence unmixt with the smallest particle of self-regard
or malevolence or malevolence: either of this benevolence or of a certain or regard for hence still pure and more admirable than such benevolence. This purity which in no case ever had existence
the existence is not in any case to be questioned: to question it, or
to represent it as anything that short of perfection, is the injury, or
insult: insult offence of which he is entitled to demand a disavowal demand a disavowal as
a disavowal for the
to each which refusal of
he is entitled if in
places certain conditions to with
doubt.

Identifier: | JB/039/104/001 "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	104	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	12111
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