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14 May 1807

If under the name of dictates of justice, there were any
dictates of utility, or any other rules of moral conduct as generally universally
regarded – binding as they are apt by many persons
to be supposed to be, the necessity of committing giving expression to them by
certain assemblages of words, to be chosen by the legislature,
would not be so pressing urgent as it is.

But the truth is there are few or none of such universally received dictates
or rules to be found any where. If there were any such
this would be universally known, and there would be no difficulty
in finding them. Let any one betake set himself to on
the search, and he will find – not the rules themselves,
but the difficulty, not to say the impossibility of finding them.
Let a man take what rule he pleases i.e. what simple
proposition he pleases, he will find that in the character of
a a universally received or receivable dictate of justice or of utility or of justice it will
be at the best no better than an approximation to the truth.
To bring it to a perfect coincidence, it will require some exception,
or rather a variety of exceptions: and howsoever
subject to an unliquidated number of exceptions instead may
be generally agreed as to the general rule, there will be
more of less disagreement as to about the exceptions.


Identifier: | JB/106/172/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.

Date_1

1807-05-14

Marginal Summary Numbering

8-9

Box

106

Main Headings

scotch reform

Folio number

172

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c3

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

iping 1804

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

bernardino rivadavia

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1804

Notes public

ID Number

34760

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