JB/067/068/001

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1818 June 27

In plain language they the man he who have whose conduct
breast is the seat of the least quantity of public spirit this generous affection
will naturally be he the man who makes the greatest breast
of it whose pretensions to it are asserted put forth with the greatest
vehemence and the greatest frequently: inasmuch that in the production of that
the good the presciently conduct seat or apparent which a man has done
or sought to do or been supposed to do and the doing of which
he has ascribed exclusively to the influence of public
this social affection in his mind, it may very well
happy that the generous affection has not had any
the smallest share, the whole being the work produce of the self-regarding
affection love of reputation, and nothing else.

If this be true, in the eye of men one who has possesses a
right and thorough a clear and correct and compleat understanding of the conception of the constitution
of the human mind, the more and
public greater the quantity of this affection
a man pretends to, and the more vehement by and publckly disseminated his pretensions to the possession of
it, the less will the quantity po of it possessed by him
be believed to be.

But as yet by small indeed is the number of
those by whom any such conception is possessed: and
accordingly therefore proportionally successful are his pretensions
made to it.

Identifier: | JB/067/068/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
Date_1	1818-06-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	22-23
Box	067	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	068	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e6
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	21901
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