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1826. July 3d

Law amendment? Penal Code

Ch. III Good & Evil. Progress.

S.2 Relates to pain & pleasure

1

1. On this as on every
other occasion in legislation,
maximization
of happiness the only
proper end in view:
to understand how, on
each occasion happiness
is affected by what
is done and suffered,
the progress of good and
evil, and in consequence
of any human act will
require to be delineated.

2.

2. Terms here employed
through deference
to custom are good
and evil, as if in each
stage of good, is produced
nothing but good,
nothing of evil could
in that stage be produced.
But in such
sent is the import of
each entangled with
that of the other that
on pain of contunual obscurity,
pain and pleasure,
which are not
susceptible of such
obscurity, must immediately
after be employed.

3.

3. Good what: 2. pleasure.
-abscence of pain:
3. Efficient cause of the
one or the other, or say
ingredient in any
such efficient cause.

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ChIII Good & Evil. Progree. 2. Relation to pain and pleasure 4. 4. Evil. is pain, absence of pleasure, an elementary ingredient of an efficient cause of either. 5. 5.1. Pain. allone to do with this than with pleasure has legislation. Easier to avert pain , than ro create and confer peasure. Production of pleasure is best performed by each individual for himself constantly, occasionally for others. All the Legislation can dom is to put at his disposal the instruments. 6. 6. He can much more surely and easily produce it: and cases to a comparatively small extent excepted, it never fails to produces it's effect. 7. Nor can he in general produce pleasure, but by means of pain in still greater quantity: witness sinecure money produced by taxes. 8. 8. Principal occupatioin minimizing the pain produced in one another by individuals, in the course of each one's endeavour to produce pleasure to avert pain from himself.

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Date_1	1826-07-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	243	Info in main headings field	Law Amendment
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