JB/058/320/001

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24 April 1805
Evidence

§. 2. Objects pursued aimed at under the impulse of those interests

The dictates of interest being given and the means of
recognizing them in that character, or also the power of not being wanting, the objects pursued under
the impulse of that interest, are will also be given power necessary
to the pursuing them with effect being also present, will also
be given. Such is the constitution of human nature.

Not in the case of each every individual taken separately:
because permanent in consequence of the variations produced
by idiosyncracy, every sort of interest, every sort of motive, every
object of desire or aversion does not act upon all men
nor upon ever any man at all times with exactly equal
force: but that constancy and consistency of action which would in vain
be looked for on the part of the individual, may be looked for
with confidence in the species of class class. Titius and Sempronius
may be governed for the moment by the interest –
by the motive, by the emotion the pleasure or pain, the by the virtue or vice, of the moment:
Titius more obedient to social interests and motives frequently led by that means into virtuous courses,
Sempronius under the governance of sef-regarding or dissocial interests and motives and thence more frequently into led astray by that means into
vitious courses: but of Titius and Sempronius and their brethren
taken together collectively it may always be predicted assumed and reckoned acted
upon with assurance, that the objects pursued through life, will
be the objects indicated by the dictates of personal interest through the
whole of life: and in a word that the objects pursued in conjunction through
a course of ages will be the objects indicated by the dictates of the predominant
interest to by the action of which they are wrought upon
during that space of time.

Identifier: | JB/058/320/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-04-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	320	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	18989
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