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Av darf Fiction. 45

The object End of the Penal Laws, as of all other Laws, is or ought
to be the greatest [temporal] happiness of the greatest number of the people
living under them - a pro- position so simple and obviously true
as scarcely to need or even admit of proofs, as every scale
of proofs as well as every of causes must and at last in some proposition that will itself
admitt of no further proof as well as every scale of causes
must terminate in some cause of which no higher cause can be assigned.
the bare assertion of it in such a manner as presumes
a necessity of any man's being formally apprised of it
may to many seem nugatory - accordingly it has not, at
any time or by any one that I know of, been formally
constructed. If one any one should be disposed to do so, and
New discoveries as has been
often said are not to be
expected in the science of
morals - It is in the steady
application of achnowledges
to maintain that defend any Law that by his admission shall confessedlyhave any
If this ought to be the end of the Penal Laws I think I
may venture to advance a step farther and say it should
be the only end : for if every operation of legislations that
opposes it is permiscious - every operation that does not
make any advances
contribute towards it should seem negatory and thrown
away.

If they should be admitted, the consequeces will at length hereafter perhaps after much more
more ample and important than may be first suspected: if
the to the laws to this end be considered made the test of their merit
and that test successively applied to every one [of that class
of Laws] at present susisting in this country </lb>

Obvious as this principle
may appear, it's consequences
when steadily and without
hesitation pursued, will appear
new: and it is from the
that may be and of
that novelty not from [of]
that the has not to apprehend.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	097	Main Headings
Folio number	034	Info in main headings field	fiction false argument - declamation
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f188
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	ia
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