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1827. Feby.
Law Amendment Penal Code
Ch. 11: Codification
§ Collections

Ch. II. Good and Evil
§. 5. Agency – positive – negative

1.
Without reference to
Penal Code, direction
on Government has
for it's subject matter,
human actions.

2
Actions are
1. positive.
2. negative.

3.
Positive, a motion,
either real, or say physical,
or fictitious,
or say mental.

4.
Objects of direction
of human agency
1. Production of actions.
2. Repressions.

5.
Production of a negative
action is repression
of the correspondent
positive and
vice versa.

6.
Names of human
actions, chiefly names
of positive actions.

7.
Thence repressions,
more than production,
the occupation
of the penal code.

8.
Of repression, the
subject matters are
throughout misdeeds
and say evil deeds.

9.
By misdeeds understand
all actions preponderantly detrimental
to the greatest
happiness of the greatest
number.

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Ch. II. Good and Evil
§. 5. Agency – positive – negative

10.
Misdeeds commonly
called offences and crimes,
but these appellations
presuppose a law applying
punishment, &
do not convey intimation
of the cause of
such annexation.

11.
But all punishment
being an evil can only
be applied, according to
greatest happiness principle,
for the prevention
of preponderant evil.

12.
At the first stage, the
fruits of the most atrocious
offences are pure
good.

13.
But the consequences
are wretchedness, actual
and expectancy,
an evil, in comparison
of which the primitive
good shrinks
into comparative insignificance.

14.
Evil of the second order
the sole reason
why an innocent person
should not be
punished, rather than
a guilty one.

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Ch. II. Good and Evil
§. 4. Agency – positive – negative Good its progress

1.
Art 1. II. Good it's progress.
1. Good producing, or
say beneficial acts
are
1. Purely self regarding.
2. Extra regarding.

2.
Art 2. 1 the purely
self regarding, though
to the existence of the
species, still more necessary
than the others
Robinson Crusoe.

3.
Art 3. Extra regarding beneficient
acts may be at
the next stage productive
of evil or of good.
The case in which
this act is productive
of evil being stated, remains
that in which
it is productive of good.

4.
Art 4. III. Case, in wh.,
after producing mischief
of 1st and 2d order, the
act of the malefactor
produces good in

5.
Art 5. Thus shown by
Government, out of a
delinquent's suffering
good by repression of
evil is produced in the
and
circles

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Date_1	1827-02-??	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	246	Info in main headings field	Law Amendment. Penal Code
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