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Art. 1 Reasons

4. Appropriate aptitude. has three branches is composed of three elements Appropriate aptiude
1 moral 2 intellectual
3 active

1. appropriate probity - appropriate intellectual aptitude
appropriate active talent

In respect of every one of these elements every government In every one branch
every member of government
liable to be
dificient

and every member of every government is at all
times liable to be dificient

In respect of appropriate probity every government and every member of every
government is at all
times almost sure
to be deficient

5.1 Appropriate probity is a branch of appropriate
aptitude in respect of which in a greater or less degree by the necessary constitution
of human nature, every man without exception has been
is and ever will be chang justly chpable.

Appropriate probity has places in so far as the alternative in question as a man Appropriate moral
aptitude where regard
for universal interest
predominant over every
other particular interest

is disposed to sacrifice to the interest of the whole community
has his own personal as well every other particular
interest. in other words to have possess for the universal
interest a regard predominant over every the hisregard for every
his own personal as well as other every other particular interest

But whatever will be at the trouble to examine into But in fact regard for
personal interest predominant
over every other

the matter with due attention will find that in every
human breast regard for the personal interest can not but
be in the general view of human conduct superior to predominant over every regard
for every other interest public or private.

He will moreover perceive that in this ingredient On this general predominance
the species
depends for its very existence

in the composition of human nature not so much as any there is no just
cause for regret: for that upon the present predominance self-regarding perspective
produces. 2. sympathy. 3 Political sanction
4. Religious 5. Popular
or normal

depends the whole species depends for the very existence
Here if necessary enter into particular proofs or illustrations
Then here the tendency of that predominance has for its
checks in the five sanctions. beginning with the physical to which virtues


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Identifier: | JB/106/247/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

106

Main Headings

liberty of the press

Folio number

247

Info in main headings field

liberty of the press

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

john dickinson & c<…> 1813

Marginals

lib1

Paper Producer

a. levy

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1813

Notes public

ID Number

34835

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