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8 June 1812
Panopt. Observats

4. In respect of this profit the appointed Manager would
after the small remnant of his life have had for his successor
the public at large.

To say This envied profit today it is the individual's
tomorrow it is the public's. aye: but why not give it to
let the public have the dear public have it today as well
as tomorrow? – Why not? only because on any other terms
than those of suffering the individual to take his chance
for having getting it today, it is not in the power of the public
to give to itself any chance. Why not take to itself all
the fish that are or can be caught instead of suffering the
fishermen to take so much of it? Aye why not? One
reason is that though fish are good things is a good thing, the public has
not hands of its own to take it with.

Of this whole concern the whole possible profit would
have been a matter the subject of experiment – the subject and object
of a course of experiments: and this course, nothing less
than a more than ordinary degree of skill animated excited
by a more than ordinary degree quantum of expected profit could
have sufficed for the carrying it on to the best advantage.
But the public? what is the public and or its interests
to the mind by the eyes of which a composition such as this Report Report such as this
was dictated.

That is good by which what serves me and my friends are served
that is evil by which I and my friends are not served.
Such is the logic: in these two definitions is comprised the
sense and substance of political science knowledge.

Identifier: | JB/118/342/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-06-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	342	Info in main headings field	panopt. observat.
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	<…> co
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39396
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