JB/058/028/001

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4 May 1805
Evidence

Evil in either form, the absence of pleasure (i.e. of this
or that particular pleasure that might have been) or the cause of
the cause of some pain or of the absence of some pleasure. Whatever
therefore be the evil in question, the cause of that evil, so far considered
as respects its action in that character, will of itself be the evil:
the cause, and the cause of that cause, and so for on without
end. Ascending this from evil to evil, in the chain of causes,
we arrive at so many ulterior correspondent ends.

But, by removal of a more remote cause, you obtain effect gain
if not the actual removal, at least a chance, more or less
considerable in favour of the removal, of a nearer and cause – of
every intermediate cause between the cause so removed and
the effect state of things considered as intrinsically obnoxious with a view
for the moment to which you propose to yourself thus to remove its causes.
All arrangements therefore the tendency of which goes to the removal
of any ulterior remoter link in this chain of causes, operate with
relation to the effect intrinsically obnoxious, as well as in relation
to its intermediate causes, in the character of means.

Whatsoever to the effect in question, some mark denominative
mark must be found to distinguish each link in a chain
causes, from every other. Calling the cause that stands nearest
to the effect a cause of the 1st order, the a cause of that cause will
be a cause of that the 2d order, and so on: the numbers increasing,
as the links, the causes grow more and more remote.

Identifier: | JB/058/028/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-05-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	3-5
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	028	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d7 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	18697
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