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1818 June 27

In whatsoever degree known this – the
philanthropy, this public spirit may have place scarcely
in any instance perhaps has it ever existed in a
state of perfect purity, free from the admixture of every
other motive with which it is liable to be confounded.
Not to speak of motives of the religious belonging to the religious class it is
scarcely ever compleatly unmixed with motives
belonging to the popular or moral sanction: in a
word with the love of reputation: i.e. of the good opinion
and good will of the greatest possible number of the members
of the community for inhabitants of that field within which are contained the individual
the obj in question behold all the object of his hope
and fears.

In so far as the interest of the whole community
is rightly understood by the several members of
it and the conduct of those members are respectively is under
the direction of the extensive sympathy in question
the true laws of conduct, viz. that the laws of conduct dictated by this extensive sympathy
and that the conduct directed by the love of reputation
will coincide. But the interest of the whole community
falls very short in every part of being universally rightly understood
by the whole or even the greater number of the
members of the community: and in the instance
of those by whom it is but understood it this understanding again falls
very short of being combined with a large strong a portion of public sympathy for he public to be capable of actually giving direction to the conduct
of the whole or the greater number of the persons there
gifted with intelligence.

Identifier: | JB/067/066/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
Date_1	1818-06-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	18-19
Box	067	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	066	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1816
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1816
Notes public		ID Number	21899
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