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Chapter 9.
Popularity

The objections which To prove that an institution
is agreable to the principle of utility, is to prove
as far as can be proved that the people ought to like it: but whether
they will like it or no after all is another question.
They would like it if the in their judgments they
suffer'd themselves to be uniformly and solely exclusively
governed by that principle. By this principle
they do govern themselves in proportion as they are
humanised and enlightened; accordingly the deference
they pay to its dictates is more uniform in this
intelligent and favoured country than perhaps in
any other. I speak here, taking the great mass
of the people upon this occasion, as they ought
to be taken upon every occasion, into the account:
and not confining my views as is too comonly
done the case, to men of rank and education.

Even in this country however, their acquiescence
is far from being as yet altogether uniform and without undeviating.
reserve exception. In some ins In some instances they still arev govern apt to suffice their judgments are still swayed warped by antipathies or prejudices
unconnected with the principle of utility, and therefore
irreconcilable to reason. They are apt to bear
antipathy to certain offences not founded ever upon without regard to even
their imputed mischievousness; and to entertain a
prejudice against certain punishments without regard
to their eligibility with respect to the ends
of punishment.+ [+ To back of this page]

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