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1826. July 7
Law Amendmt Penal CodeCh. 11. Codification
§ Offences collectively

Ch. Good and Evil
§. 1. Use of this delineation

1.
1. Good and Evil
fruits of the same
tree.

2.
2. Both are produced
not only by all political disorders,
but by all remedies from the
same source.

3.
3. Hence a necessary
condition precedent
to the maximization
of the good,
and minimization
of the evil is the
tracing the course taken
by each as it
flows from human
agency.

4.
4. As to evil – Exclusion
being impossible,
remains minimization
as the only
desireable result
possible.

5.
Symptoms of the disorder
the lots of evil
as they flow from
mischievous agency.
Ingredients in the
remedy, lots of good as
they flow from human
agency, producing
evil in the first place,
in the shapes of
punishment, and
burthen of making
compensation.

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Ch. Good and Evil
§. 1. Use of this delineation

6.
6. Apply here to the body
politic what has
place as to the body
natural.

7.
7. On the correctness of
this delineation will
depend the success of
the remedies hereinafter
employed.

8.
Determine first the
course taken by the
matter of evil as it flows
from an evil producing
or say a maleficial act.

From the observations
made and here brought
to view as to the progress
of evil and good in
society will be deduced
as will be seen the
mode of taking an estimate
of the mischief
of a mischievous act –
of an act in such
sort mischievous as to
warrant an call for
its being converted into
an offence a punishable
offence.

2 the course taken
for giving to a lot of
evil the faculty of operating
in the character of a
remedy to the evil producing produced
by an
offence.

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Date_1	1826-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	245	Info in main headings field	Law Amendment. Penal Code
Image	001	Titles
Category	Rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	John Flowerdew Colls ; Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year
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