JB/106/322/002

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1821 July 15

Ends and means at the same time are all those sweets
of government: sources of enjoyment for the present, sources of security
or at any rate expected security for the future. In so far as
the sweet quantity of the sweet savoured is in excess

Of the quantity of the means efficient causes of happiness enjoyed by the
ruling view in virtue of their rule every particle over and above the least quantity
sufficient to ensure produce at all times the greatest happiness of the greatest
number is so much enjoyed in excess: for of that which
is enjoyed at the expence of the subject many not a particle
is there by the extraction of which from those from whom it is
extracted more of suffering is not produced on the part of those from whom it
is extracted than is produced of enjoyment on the part
of those by or for and for whom it is extracted. In so far as enjoyed
in excess all those sweets of government may be termed sweets of misrule.

Ends and means In so far as they are extracted received
and enjoyed in excess all those sweets the enjoyment of which
as the among the ends of misrule are operate as means of and for
the continuance and encrease of it: partly by the satisfaction
partly by the hope of partaking in those sweets some are induced
to be active take an action, others in still greater number to be bear a passive
part in the support of it. In so far as they fail of being applied
to their original and only proper destination the augmentation of
the happiness of those at whose expence they are enjoyed, they
constitute the subject matter of waste: in so far as they are extracted
under favour of the helplessness of those incapacity of resistance inability to resist on
the part of those at whose expence they are extracted, they constitute
the subject matter of depredation: in so far as by the possession
or the hope of a share in them they procure support to the
system of misrule by which the excess is produced, they
constitute in the aggregate the matter of corruption: and separately taken so
many instruments of corruption: in so far as by the exhibition made
of them they work operate upon the imagination – upon the imagination of those at whose expence they
are enjoyed, perverting
the mans judgments in such
sort as to make cause them believe
that the excess is
necessary or conducive
to good government the greatest happiness
of the greatest number or that those rulers by
whom they are enjoyed in
excess are by reason of that very excess entitled to the enjoyment of it although by the that enjoyment of it the greatest happiness of the greatest number is sacrificed to the
greatest happiness of the few by whom it is enjoyed, it constitutes the
instrument of delusion.

Identifier: | JB/106/322/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1821-07-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	codification proposal (codification offer)
Folio number	322	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	verso	Page Numbering	c4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	349910010
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