JB/067/089/001

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1818 July 1
Penal Code

Per ruling few, their force of the public mischief
See J.B. motives but of this such
support from them, that support must be withdrawn
– love of reputation and love of power suffice to account for their
anxiety, without any love of the people.

My persuasion says the ruler is – that from of the
allowance of that liberty more mischief than good would
be the consequence: and this difference on the side of mischief
this and no other is the cause of the desire I have to feel and
the endeavours I use to see it suppressed. My motive By a notion and no more you are therefore desired
to believe that is if that on this occasion my desire desires wishes
conduct are determined governed: and this (you see) is of the
purest nature: love of that public, the mischief to which
is the object by the contemplation of which this desire that solicitude
and those endeavours have been produced: of this love
of the people those endeavours are so many evidences this endeavour is a manifest evidence.

Answer. No matter what your motives are: whether
those that which you mention or any other: the question is – the
sole question that belongs to the case is – what is the
effect and tendency: and whatsoever the nature of your motives may
be, this effect and tendency will not be influenced by it.

Of But From no such endeavours as those can any the
slightest ground be made for the any such inference as that they have
had for their efficient cause any such regard for the interest of
the people. For those endeavours, were those ever so
much more strenuous than they are, self-regarding
interest – self-regarding power of every social interest interest is abundantly sufficient: love of money, of
money is to be had in respect of the whatsoever money able is attached
to the power thus anxiously guarded – love of money, love
of power – love of factitious dignity in so far as any such
good thing is added attached to the power – love of reputation at
any rate.

Identifier: | JB/067/089/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
Date_1	1818-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	74-75
Box	067	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	089	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
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	21922
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