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Expence

NOTE.

If the public funds were enriched a single penny
at the beginning of the revolution, the community
in general could not fail to lose. The
truth of this observation depends upon two undeniable
and fundamental [of political pathology] axions. 1st that⊞ ⊞ upon an average it
is more less painful to lose to a given amount,
than it is pleasurable to gain. [2dly That a
burthen sits lighter upon the whole the more
it is divided.] The first of these axioms is that which affords
the main reason for those laws which men pro
protect the subject in his possessions.

These rules are capable open of daily application:
nor have they in any country under any government perhaps so sedulously
observed, to it's honorer be it spoken, as
under our own. The French, I am sorry to
say it, seem to have been amongst the most
culpable Their remedies are all caustic. Their
writers have taught and humanized the world:
But their Ministers have hearts of iron. Dazzled by the glare of a [weak and shallow superficial paradox]
paradoxical antithesis, they make [the welfare of]
the state every thing, and individuals nothing.
"But to an unprejudiced eye, the condition of a
"state, is the condition of all the individuals, without
"distinction that compose it." Fragm. on Government Ch.2, §. 34. note.

Identifier: | JB/159/112/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	112	Info in main headings field	expence
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53935
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