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Two material attributes
of gt. happiness principle
its all comprehensiveness
and consistency. It takes
charge of Morals and Politics
(Government & Legislation)
and International Law
— each as it is for hope
of rendering it what it ought
to be.

Among the merits meritorious attributes of the greatest happiness principle,
are two which are too material to be forgotten are the all comprehensiveness
and consistency, meaning exemption from the danger of inconsistency,
[of which it may be said to be in so constant a degree
susceptible if not it may not with more propriety be said to be
actually in possession] to the securing of which valuable properties
to the details of any work carried on under its direction
it affords such important assistance. It takes alike under
its charge and gives character and direction to the details of Morals and Politicks
including under Politics Government and Legislation and International
law: each of them considered as it is for the hope of rendering seeing it rendered
it what it ought to be. Morals is the doctrine of what ought
to be done on a small scale when considered upon by man when acting on the small
— the individual — scale: Politics the doctrine of what ought to be
done by him when acting on enlarged — a national or international
scale.

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It cannot be applied on
too large a scale. Not
so with asceticism. no
ascetic wd. deprive a
whole nation much less
the human race, of all enjoyment.
If yes — damnation
wd be the proper
end in view.

Of the greatest happiness principle application can not
be made upon too large a scale: it can not be carried on too far.
Note here how striking the contrast it forms with the principle
of Asceticism: whatever m he may descry
in imposing sufferance on or denying enjoyment to himself
the most devoted partisan of the principle of Asceticism
will hardly make a merit of dealing in the same manner
with a whole nation, still less with the whole of the human
race at all times: if yes, damnation universal and eternal would
be the right and proper end in view the attainment of which
ought to be the object of all endeavours

Identifier: | JB/014/354/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1829-06-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	83-84
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	354	Info in main headings field	article
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1 / f46
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1829
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public	[[notes_public::"original / copied" [note in colls's hand]]]	ID Number	5117
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