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1826. July 3d

Law amendment? Penal Code.

Ch. III Good & Evil. Progress.

S.2 Relates to pain & pleasure

1.

1. On this, as on every
other occasion in legislation,
maximization
of happiness the only
proper end in view:
to understand how, on
each occasion happiness
is affected by what
is done and suffered,
the progress of good and
evil, and in consequence
of any human act will
require to be delineated.

2.

2. Terms here employed
through deference
to custom are good
and evil, as if in each
stage of good, is produced
nothing but good,
nothing of evil wcould
in that stage be produced.
But in such
sort is the import of
each entangled with
that of the other that,
on pain of contunual obscurity,
pain and pleasure,
which are not
susceptible of such
obscurity, must immediately
after be employed.

3.

31. Good what: 2. pleasure.
-absence of pain:
3. Efficient cause of the
one or the other, or say
ingredient in any
such efficient cause.

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ChIII. Good & Evil. Progress.
S. 2. Relation to pain and pleasure

4.

4. Evil. is pain, absence
of pleasure, an elementary
ingredient of an efficient
cause of either.

5.

5.1. Pain. More to do with
this than with pleasure
has legislation. Easier to
avert pain , than to create
and confer pleasure. Production
of pleasure is
best performed by each individual
for himself
constantly, occasionally
for others. All the
Legislation can do, is to put
at his disposal the instruments.

6.

6. He can much more
surely and easily produce
it: and cases to a comparatively
small extent excepted,
it never fails to
produces it's effect.

7.

7. Nor can he in general
produce pleasure, but by
means of pain in still
greater quantity: witness
sinecure money produced
by taxes.

8.

8. Principal occupation,
minimizing the pain produced
in one another by
individuals, in the course
of each one's endeavour
to produce pleasure to,
or avert pain from, himself.

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Ch. 4 Certification
S Offences Collectively

Ch.III. Good & Evil. Progress.

S.3. Good to progress from
a peculiar evil producing act

9. Note now the three
masses of pain succesively
producible by
an act of which pain
is the consequence:
so many of these masses,
so many orders or
stages of mischief.
On this distinction
stands the ground.

9.or 2

Example. From vulneration,
vulneratee reveives
a wound: effect, pain
with disability, say for
a lunar month to
pursue his -
subsistence yielding occupation

From this loss, follows
do. to all other
persons whose subsistence
was earned out
of his pen the same
time

10. or 3

Out of Vulneratee's
above loss of profit
yielding time, great
losses to persons connected
with him by
the tie

1. Of community of
self regarding interest
viz conductor who used
to pay him for his
time

11. or 4

2. Vulneratee's Wife
and children: connected
with him by
the tie of
1. self-regarding interest
on say self regard.
2. Of sympathetic interest.

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Propositions?

CIII. Good and Evil - Progress.

S. 2 Exposition Definitive

S.3 Evil its progress from a
purely evil producing act

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Identifier: | JB/549/243/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 549.
Date_1	1826-07-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	243	Info in main headings field	Law Amendment
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