JB/058/030/001

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17 June 1804 Incorporate 5 May 1805
Procedure

If the underrating unremitting steady contemplation of the end in view –
the ultimate end – be comparatively so rare in those
tracks of paths of conduct in which men are engaged by each by
the pursuit his own interest, how much more rare is it, in
the instance of those in which he is engaged any one of them into which he is put for the purpose of his with a direction an expectation to look to the interest of
some third person or say the public party, for example, and take that for
the end or object he is aim at? In this case, his
by the very constitution – the universal and unchangeable constitution of human nature
his own personal interest is sure to act upon him in the
character of a by end, calling him off at each step continually
from the contemplation of that which whether it is or is
not ought to be, that of which it were is for the sake of the public to be wished that
it were – desirable that it should be – his main end.
In the case the rack indicated by this main end will
if it be not seen to lead likewise to the by end
to at least neglected, if it be seen or thought to lead him
away from it, will be purposely deserted.

If these observations, obvious, and even true as
they may seem when thus answered – had been less true
there would not have been so much occasion as there
is will be found to be for commencing a treatise on the rationale of procedure
of the system of procedure by the designation of what the ends which that
ought every where and by every body, have been kept
in view in the framing of it. Had it actually been in each place, and by each person, been
kept in view, and the steps taken the system delineated
been in conformity to those ends, this system would
not have been so wretched imperfect so ill adjusted to those ends
as in every country they will be found to be: and the necessity for
holding up to view in the first place the catalogue of those ends would not have been so
as it will here be found to be.

Identifier: | JB/058/030/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1804-06-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-5
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	030	Info in main headings field	procedure
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	"incorporate 5 may 1805"	ID Number	18699
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