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<p><!-- pencil -->July 1810</p> | |||
<p>So far from discovering <add>my having discovered</add> symptoms of <add>any</add> such desire, all that<lb/> | |||
in a course of observation commencing with the present <add>auspicious</add> reign I have observed,<lb/> | |||
all that I have ever read, all that I have ever heard, has<lb/> | |||
confirmed me in the assurance of a disposition as opposite to every<lb/> | |||
such desire as possible.</p> | |||
<p>Of any theoretical enquiry of this sort there could<lb/> | |||
not be <add>be but</add> any other than one or other of two practical<lb/> | |||
uses, viz. the making of the state of the <del>laws</del> law<lb/> | |||
better than it is, or the preventing it from growing<lb/> | |||
worse. As to the making it better, that was universally<lb/> | |||
<add>recognized</add> recognized, or as now we say <hi rend="underline">felt</hi>, to be impossible:<lb/> | |||
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July 1810
So far from discovering my having discovered symptoms of any such desire, all that
in a course of observation commencing with the present auspicious reign I have observed,
all that I have ever read, all that I have ever heard, has
confirmed me in the assurance of a disposition as opposite to every
such desire as possible.
Of any theoretical enquiry of this sort there could
not be be but any other than one or other of two practical
uses, viz. the making of the state of the laws law
better than it is, or the preventing it from growing
worse. As to the making it better, that was universally
recognized recognized, or as now we say felt, to be impossible:
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106 |
fragment on government (defence of economy) |
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231 |
defence or preface to fragment |
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jeremy bentham |
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