JB/117/021/002

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Objections Bicetre Proposal

proportion as he fulfills his duty — Which then
had you rather see done? — good by interested motives,
or mischief or at any rate a less degree of good by disinterested ones? If in his endeavours
to benefit others so many thousands a single individual should
hurt himself the misfortune would not indeed be great:
— but if instead of hurting he were to benefit himself,
would that too be a misfortune? If the
idea of a single individual benefiting himself is
so intolerable an one to you what is it you are
arriving at? can the idea of so many thousands
thriving so much more essential motives benefit be an acceptable
one? You who urge the use made of
this motive as an objection, what motive is
it that makes it appear such in your eyes? Is
it public 'spirit?' Is it not envy? Public spirit
is it, or envy? — the pleasure you take at the idea
of the prosperity of the management establishment, or the plea
pain you feel at the thoughts t of the prosperity
of the manager of him who would have the conduct
of it.

What if the thru persons whose rigid principles
will give admittance no other motive than
that of the most disinterested virtue should be the
same who are the loudest in their complaints of
the extreme scarcity of it? that quality? Such an inconsistency
however

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	021	Info in main headings field	bicetre proposal
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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