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1832 May 10 Constitutional Code Notes
Thus it is that in no place at no time can
Judge service in apt quality apt and sufficient quantity sufficient for keeping
the community society together, and the means of existence of its members the being, of
which it is composed taken from there by physical force
applied by other human beings, without the matter of good
so employed applied as to have the effect of reward: the matter of
good that is to say the perception or contemplation either of pleasure
in some shape or other, or th of exemption from pain in some
shape or other which otherwise would be experienced or expected
to be experienced & of reward that is to say in consequence
of labour in some shape or say quality or other, and in quantity
more than equivalent to the utmost quantity of
pain by which it is by the looked-for in question regarded
as being in the event of its being performed likely to be attendant,
and not otherwise.
But a desire inherent in the nature of every being
of the species is question being is the desire of experiencing pleasure
in the greatest quantity possible, and exempt from pain in the
greatest quantity possible, no limited nor consequently no fixt
and or unincreasable quantity will be renewed by him so long
as, without apprehension of losing any part of what he has been
in the habit or unless afforded expectation of receiving, it appears to him
possible to receive any addition to it.
By the appellation salary is designated an unincreasable
reward; by the appellation fees an increasable or
an unincreasable one.
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