JB/106/172/001

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14 May 1807

If under the name of dictates of justice, there were any
dictates of utility, or any other rules of moral conduct as generally universally
regarded – binding as they are apt by many persons
to be supposed to be, the necessity of committing giving expression to them by
certain assemblages of words, to be chosen by the legislature,
would not be so pressing urgent as it is.

But the truth is there are few or none of such universally received dictates
or rules to be found any where. If there were any such
this would be universally known, and there would be no difficulty
in finding them. Let any one betake set himself to on
the search, and he will find – not the rules themselves,
but the difficulty, not to say the impossibility of finding them.
Let a man take what rule he pleases i.e. what simple
proposition he pleases, he will find that in the character of
a a universally received or receivable dictate of justice or of utility or of justice it will
be at the best no better than an approximation to the truth.
To bring it to a perfect coincidence, it will require some exception,
or rather a variety of exceptions: and howsoever
subject to an unliquidated number of exceptions instead may
be generally agreed as to the general rule, there will be
more of less disagreement as to about the exceptions.

Identifier: | JB/106/172/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-05-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	8-9
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	172	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	34760
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