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1831 Feb. 24
Prospectus of the Universalist(5)

☞ To Bowring Look over this page and adjust it. I
know not very well what to make of it.

Accuracy or say Correcness Strictness Well-concertedness
Preconcertedness
All these desirable properties hang as it were together
follow from each other.

The Universalist is a Legion, and that Legion
is a Phalanx. Of the Phalanx the members are united by the
one great common bond the greatest happiness principle
and several bonds of lesser extent which are comprised in
it and under it. Of that which in extent and strength is the principal one, that which stands in
most immediate contact with the all comprehensive one
particular mention will be made presently.

Thus each member will be of the same The opinions of all being thus thus fully settled by a long continual
course of meditation and application to practical questions
as they arise, the members of this phalanx may be depended
upon as to his remaining steady to himself and to
all others: to the rule will be invariably observed.

But as to particular subjects differing from each
other in extent not importance differe between the members of
this phalanx as between all other men difference of opinion
will be liable and apt to arise by which if each of them
within his department were to give expression to his opinion
without communication on the subject with the others, unsteadiness
on the part of the whole: inconsistency if as between
one article and another – in the several following papers, or
even in one and the same paper would be liable to have
place. To obviate the inconvenience whatsoever be the site
or the main topic of the day or cluster of topics of the day, it will
be their habitual practice, to meet and settle in
concert what shall be the tone taken in relation to it.

This is not a mere theory announced in the way of
anticipation: it the result of the observation was suggested by practice: by much of the good
effects of the maintenance of it on the part in the case of one Newspaper, and
the bad effect of the neglect of it in the case of multitude of others. The one Newspaper
is the French Morning Newspaper – the Constitutional: the multitude of others
is composed of the English Newspapers in general, whose vacillation
and unsteadiness is to has been the object of extreme and
frequent remark to their disadvantage: of individuals would
on this occasion be invidious, and happily is not necessary⊞
⊞ It is obvious, that
the possibility of making
application of this rule
to in practice has is
limits, one that accordingly and therefore
so has the degree of
perfection capable of
being undertaken for
in respect of those same
desirable properties:
but it is something
to have be assured that it will
that the highest possible degree
will never be lost sight of.

Identifier: | JB/149/287/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1	1831-02-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings
Folio number	287	Info in main headings field	prospectus of the universalist
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
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Notes public	[[notes_public::"to bowring look over this page and adjust it. i know not very well what to make of it" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	50141
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