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Prizes

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Ch. 1 Beginning
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1. Rule forbidding misapplication
2. Rule prescribing
coextensiveness or
all comprehensiveness
of application.
3. Rule prescribing
sufficiency.
4. Rule forbidding
superfluity.

For shortness sake, these rules, in so far as they relate apply
to the subject here in hand may be thus expressed, viz

1. Rules forbidding misapplication. Let care be taken lest
in the occasion or in practice of the reward

1. Rule or 2. Rule of all comprehensiveness. prescribing coextensiveness of application. Let the disposition
of the matter
, application made of the matter of reward
be extensive enough to cover compleatly <add>and embrace
be coextensive with the exigency of the service.

3. Rule of prescribing sufficiency. Let the qu In respect of Let
In each instance
Let the quantity of the matter of
reward allotted provided be such as shall in each individual
instance, be sufficient to produce give birth to the good effect desired
in so far as depends upon exertion, sufficient to produce
the effect desired.

2. 3. 4 Rule of frugality. forbidding excess <add>prescribing frugality to wit by forbidding superfluity, and excess Let the quantity of the matter of
reward allotted be so in such measure applied as
that if possible it shall not in any individual instance be
greater excessive than what is sufficient to give birth to those such
necessary and sufficient exertions.

Of these four rules the first two concern regard the character
to be given to the sort species of matter in question viz the
matter of reward: the two others regard concern the quantum
proper suitable to the occasion to be allotted, regard being had to the nature and
value of the service


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Identifier: | JB/547/004/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 547.

Date_1

1810-11-26

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547

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004

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001

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Penner

Jeremy Bentham

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Jeremy Bentham

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