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1827. Decr 8

Law Amendment. Propositions
C II. CodificationCh II <> Atheanprehence Code. Plan
§ 2. Ends in view
II Subordinate
and the matter of abundance
put together the
member
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Absolute equality what

By absolute equality understand equality as between share and share of the sharing respectively possessed
the several member of the community in the aggregate mass of the composed should matter of subsistence

By equality all that is here understoodmeant all that any
above consistently with common sense can be understoodmeant - as
such appro the nearest approach that can be made to equality such absolute be made have
place without prejudice security, subsitence or, the maximum of abundance
Absolute equality, as utterly were it possible, would be incompatible 31
Equality here meant the
nearest approach to
absolute equality as is
consistent with security
subsistence or the maximum
of abundance
with all three. But in no instance is it possible. Not so
much as for a single moment in any commonly large enough to be
deemed a political community can it have place: and if supposing
it to have place for one moment, at the next moment it
next would be at an end: at the moment of the m enter
or of a word consumed. If a house mansion could at one moment
be cut into a million of pieces, the same mansion could not at
a million and one pieces. This also closely looked absolute equality so far from being realised, absolute equality can not when closely
looked at, be so much as conceived. Absolute equality is therefore
neither more nor less than absolute nonsense.

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Equality practicble only
on masses of matter of
subsistence left vacant
by proprietors death & on
future contingent masses
not yet brought into
existence

Security what th there is of it - is as to the greatest part of it the product of the
aggregate of the labour of the several public functionaries belonging 34
Security is against evil
for modification of which
see below
to the state: the matter of subsistence and abundance - what there
is of it - of the aggregate of the labour of the labouring part of
the other individuals belonging to the state. Security is security
against evil: for the modification of which evil is susceptible, see below

By whatever enactments are made for the purpose of security,
provision is at thereby the same time made for the purposes
of subsistence and abundance: which other provision is made
with advantage for these two purposes or either of them is made
rather by some modification applied to the one

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(2)

Actually existing master of the matter of subsistence and abundance
and left as they come to be vacant by the death of the proprietor; future contingent
master of that same matter not yet brought into existence: these
principally if not exclusively are the subject matters capable of being
disposed of with advantage for the purpose of equable practical equality without prejudice to security.

Observe whether some additional matter may not be more conveniently inserted under this head than under any suceeding one?

Identifier: | JB/061/009/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 61.
Date_1	1827-12-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	30-35
Box	061	Main Headings	Law Amendment; Penal Code
Folio number	009	Info in main headings field	Law Amendment
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C1 / E12
Penner		Watermarks	J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1827
Marginals	George Bentham	Paper Producer	Jonathan Blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1827
Notes public		ID Number	19698
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