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14 May 1807

Place Seat justice as high as you will, you will always
find, that on pain of abjuring an utter abjuration of all the use
of reason, of all regard for mankind, yourself included, you
must place utility still higher. beyond it and above it. It is only by arguments
bearing reference to utility that propositions bearing
reference on the face of it to justice can be supported or combated. And
if so it happens than a proposition having reference on
the face of it be ju utility can consistently with reason
be supported or combated by an argument bearing reference
on the face of it to justice, it is only in so far as
the word justice is translated into the word utility – in so
far as that which has been and to be conformable to utility
is said on other accounts to be in a greater degree
unconformable, or vice versâ.

Would there be common sense in the proposition that
the being the happiness of every being susceptible of it should ought to be made a sacrifice
of to justice? what in such a case would the happiness be sacrificed
to, but to the sound of the word justice?

Identifier: | JB/106/179/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-05-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	23
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	179	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	34767
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