JB/100/180/001

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few to give way to the interests of the many. What is
not considered is either if the many of which the
public is composed, a few only are would be benefited by
the reform, as few perhaps as those who could be
prejudiced by it, of if even all would be benefited,
yet the benefit would be so little to each, that
the species of benefit would not be equal to the
sum of inconvenience, prejudice <add>damage</add> at least if what it must amount to if the condition
of affording indemnification be not observed.

Wherever this condition is not observed, fulfilled
and the many the whole public the many come
in without exception for their share in the benefit
of the reform, the result from of it, good and evil
taken together in neither more nor less than the result
of a more or less unequal tax: a few individuals
are taxed, out of all proportion to their
means, for the relief and benefit of the whole. What
is thus presented under the specious name of reform
turns out therefore to be neither more nor less no other than
the very self-same measure which if presented
under the name of a tax would by every body, all persons
the patrons of the supposed reform probably not
excepted, be exclaimed against as a most enormous
grievance.

Identifier: | JB/100/180/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 100.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	100	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	180	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	32196
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