JB/058/103/001

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18 May 1805
Evidence

Once more, This catalogue, is it compleat and well arights composed? – the
advantages of each existing system are given, and converse on the other
hand the disadvantages: the advantages of which it is in possession of
the disadvantages under which it labours.

It is advantageous, beneficial in proportion to the degree of its subserviency
to the aggregate of all those ends.

It is disadvantageous, in proportion to the degree of its
opposition in relation to the aggregate of all those ends.

The ends thus given, the properties desirable to be wished for in any each and
every such established system are also given. To each such end
corresponds a desirable property: – the property of being subservient
to that end.

The ends thus given, the principles or fundamental rules by which the
propriety or goodness fitness of each established system ought to be tried judged of
are also given. The principles by principles as To each such end
corresponds a principle. The principle by which the propriety or fitness of each given
established system ought to be judged of, are the degree: of its
subserviency or opposition with reference to those respective ends.

"First principles of justice"! In what legislative harangue –
in what judicial argument is do not we hear appeal upon appeal
made to the first principles of justice? How many are there of Sacred and ever adorable,
rules! Immutable as Truth herself, recognized proclaimed from pole to pole,
innate as the cognitive principle, familiar to the child unborn!
How many are there of them? what are they? In what volume, on
what brazen tablet, or deluge-surviving pillar are they to be found?
What no answer? – For , the , the , the , the
and the -, all silent? – Well then – let us speak.

If this the above catalogue be well-composed and
compleat, then, in so far as adjective law
is concerned, those are the first principles of
justice.

Identifier: | JB/058/103/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-05-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	103	Info in main headings field	evidence introd
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18772
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