JB/149/279/001

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1831 Feb 6
For the Examiner(3) (2)

Difference between the People's Enemy and the People's Friend

No (says the Peoples Enemy) it is not that the
end at which we aim when saying Property is the
only basis form or Property is a proper basis of representation.
It is the greatest happiness of the smaller number.
No, the end we aim at the fulfilment of the purpose
we aim at the accomplishment of is the greatest happiness
of the greater number: for, to the exercise of the powers
of government in such manner as to promote the happiness
of the greatest number, appropriate intellectual aptitude
is necessary, and the capacity – the only capacity end we
have in view in wishing to see in which as such to place the powers in the hands of the
opulent few is placing them in the hands of those that class
by whom in the largest proportion is possessed this same
appropriate intellectual aptitude.

Then again saith that with his mask still on, the Peoples
Enemy. To this, what now saith the Peoples Friend?

He answerable and saith thus

Of the those three branches or divisions of appropriate
aptitude relation had to the several situations of legislator
and elector of legislators appropriate intellectual aptitude is
but one, the other two being appropriate moral aptitude,
and appropriate active talent or say aptitude:
possession of opulence to a superior amount is not itself intellectual
aptitude, at the utmost it is no more than a sort
of presumptive evidence of this same branch of appropriate
aptitude: it is not direct evidence; it is but circumstantial
evidence: allowing it to be presumptive evidence, such
same presumptive evidence is very far from being exclusive: and as
to appropriate intellectual aptitude and appropriate active aptitude
only in so far as they have for their accompaniment
they have appropriate moral aptitude are they contributors
to the maximization of all comprehensive appropriate aptitude
– appropriate aptitude in all its branches taken together. Suppose
but a deficiency in the article of appropriate moral aptitude, the two
other branches, both or either, instead of encrease produce diminution
in the sum of appropriate aptitude: if the end which the
legislator, or the
legislatorial Elector, aims at
is the greatest happiness
– not of the subject many but that of the
ruling few, the greater
the stock he possesses of
appropriate knowledge
and of the greater the
degree of strength in which
he possesses appropriate
judgment, the greater
will be the contribution
made by him to the
encrease of the happiness
of the ruling few, at the
expence of, not to the diminution
of that of the
subject many, and
thereby of the whole number taken together.

Identifier: | JB/149/279/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1	1831-02-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings
Folio number	279	Info in main headings field	jb to examiner
Image	001	Titles	difference between the people's enemy and the people's friend
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	street & co 1830
Marginals		Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1830
Notes public		ID Number	50133
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