JB/047/423/001

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26 Aug 1806
Essay on Evidence Native Title

No social pleasure or pain, , interest &c that
has not its root in self-regarding ones.

For some time after a human creature comes into existence
its breast is engrossed occupied exclusively by self regarding pleasures, pains,
motives and interests: Social are unknown is it.

But though all sympathy had its root originally in self-love,
yet as it grows it detaches itself and constitutes a principle
of action no less distinct, and no less real than the other.

The pleasure of power seems to be the chief pleasure of
the self-regarding class in which the pleasures of the social, sympathetic
class have their root: the source of the affection
which the mother, the father, and even the guardian feel naturally
for the infant depending on their care.

If parental affection had did not grow out of self regarding pleasure & interest
such as that of the pleasure of power, it would be instinctive: that and if
instinctive, it would be attached derived exclusively from the real child, never
from any spurious one, and would be a list of genuineness in filiation
as infallible as all others are apt to be fallacious.

It is in this way that the affection of man extends itself to
the inferior animals situated under his power: to his dog, to his
cat, to his horse.(a) (a) Dragons this from thier Horses or . Aug. 1806 It is this that makes a poor man
of keeping a dog.

From this cause a variety of phenomena may be accounted for.

1. That the affection for of the mother for the child. especially the age of infantile
helplessness is stronger than that of the father.

That the affection borne towards the child of the Nurse by which the child is tended is frequently
stronger than that of the Mother, who in comparison of the Nurse
has had but little intimacy with it.

3. Hence the truth and the cause of the truth of the remark that affection
descends in greater force that it ascends. Which by Lord Coke is pretended
of property is true of law. And thence it is this is one cause that
the law which this quibble is employed to reconcile men has not never
been treated with the indignation which on account of its absurdity and
mischievousness it deserves.

Identifier: | JB/047/423/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1806-08-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-5
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	423	Info in main headings field	essay on evidence motive table
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	15291
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