JB/058/070/001

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3 May 1805
Evidence

§. Limitations necessary to the description of these evils

First incidental collateral end – avoidance of vexation
understand where unnecessary is preponderant.

Meantime Of these several evils there is not one which, in
some quantity or other is not inseparably attached to the system
of procedure – to every suit which can without exception
to which it can happen to be carried on under the set system of arrangements
of which that system is composed. To propose
for an end of procedure simply and – to propose
in that character, without limitation – the compleat avoidance
of vexation, of expence, of delay – would be to propose
as an object of endeavour – an object a good – the attainment of which
is upon the face of it impossible. Important therefore as it Much therefore as it is
to be wished is that those evils should as much as possible be avoided and
averted, it is not till after some limitation has been set to
the description of them that the avoidance of them can be stated
as a rational object of human endeavour legislative industry.

For the description of this limitation two considerations present
themselves.

Suppose the evil in question, not suppose it either in the
whole, or in any part of it, not necessary to the production of
good – in the pursuit of which it is liable to be produced: it
is then so much pure evil: and in that character the possibility
as well as propriety of endeavouring to exclude it, follows of
course. First limitation to infor informing the description of the evil to be avoided; the time
if taken, applied by the epithet unnecessary: instead of vexation
simply, Suppose say vexation unnecessary, vexation where unnecessary: –
and so of the rest.

Identifier: | JB/058/070/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-05-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	7
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	070	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	18739
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