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afforded suggested incentives, furnished one with instruments
for making the attempt. From him I learnt to look upon
the tendency of any institution or pursuit to promote the
happiness of society as the sole test and measure of
its merit: and to (rest all my ideas every idea of right and wrong
upon the single basis of utility) regard the principle
of utility as an oracle which if properly consulted would
afford the only true solution that could be given
to every question of right and wrong. Much about
the same time M. Beccaria's book on crimes & punishments,
and the Empress of Russia's Instructions
for a Code of Laws, gave me fresh incentives and
afforded me further lights.

It was much about that time my good old friend that my
I ceased to have the pleasure of seeing you so often as
for two or three years before I had been used to do.
From what cause I cannot precisely tell: but I think
it was rather my misfortune than my fault. Perhaps
you thought that having given up it abandoned a pursuit I now appeared
to have set my heart upon I was grown torpid
and had to given myself up to indolence. If you so,
though in a manner underground, I without producing any apparent
fruits: for I was working deep. I was engaged
in a set of speculations which insensibly led me into
the promotion of a plan for the (a general reform in
Jurisprudence,) determining upon fixed principles what
ought

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	104	Info in main headings field	letter to foster petersburgh
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / / / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 248, vol. 2	ID Number	56924
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