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This Page Has Not Been Transcribed Yet [messy first go through, apologies to anyone who gets back to this before me] [1st column] All those proprietors whose [/that are] let were at from abroad the ... would a ... and the whole fabric of their expectations blown away: and after all the work of equalisation would remain yet to do, as if nothing had been done.
[2nd col - almost all x'd out] Proportion? nothing but a ground of expectation
source of the further about natural rights
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strength of this fictions? [/sound] added to the weakness of the understanding
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A cover for ... of a badly proonged ... man went ... to the existence of the law.
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The truth is that physical relation has grounds expectation in a weak degree but the full ... can only be derived from law
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There is nothing a man can have but what it may be ... he should be obliged to part with by law
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//// nodboy should feel my ... modiication ... tomorrow or next day or in short any day
[3rd col] What is degree. The object of an equalisation system? is not that many should have less than they have, but that many should have more. WHat would be the result?
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that anybody could have any thing.
... were it to be carried into execution could not subsist too in metet together. The parsimonious and industrious p/money getting?] would accumulate The prodigal would deferate ... would distrupt the division ... equalisation law would be a law for the [/propagation] encourage much of immorality a law for the encouragement of prodiality - a law prohibiting industry and frugality and that pain of confiscation
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What is the object of such a system of this for consistently persued: perfect and perpetual equality ... it is not that this is that man would see nobody above him and that nobody should: it is not that ...
[4th col] An equalisation law of recasional only would not come up to its object: it would be productive of misery in abundance and all that industry would be in waste. If permanent it would not be similarly injurious to industry. but radically destructive of it ... So long as a rough thorn in the fabric remained upon account its operation would not be at an end. So long as any one man ... land full of corn more than any [/his neighbours] other the legal privilege must go on: at must be distributed grain by grain or thing as many as ...
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These for we have nothing worse than simple misery: the most ... is to abolish destruction. Who would sow if nobody were to reap or what is worse, if those who had performed ... the one task nor the other were to carry away the largest of the ... from him who had performed both?
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Suppose a system of ... equalisation established among a ... and the stock of ...
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The ... would be to do upon at wing good reason, and as wing bad season, upon every birth ... and at every death
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Other things to be the object of it. The ... they would have it refurished ... and so ...
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Community of goods One [/palpably] practicable scheme only remains under the domination of the equalisation principle, a community of goods. Every other scheme woud be false ad unfit ... as the next defence to ... itself. Thi would only be [/destructive] fatal to liberty.
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real equality, under this scheme of nominal?/normal equalisation. ... and ... they ... all ... their ... like legs not .. cash together, and drink themselves motionless, lest [/that so] many ... his fellows. What would the commander do all the while, if it were a small of prudence ... cask ...
The governor India ... cost of ...
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A thorough develler is a man of which be such a man whose the ... of envy has swallows up every other: . a man ... [/the] hatred ... he bears to others has got the better of their love for others to himself ... where so long as for saw gladly who was better of than him would ... content not to be better off than any body above himself on the scale of [/opulence] property would be content to see himself above nobody [/not to be anbody] ... who would s.... so as he could ... leave of fear ...
oh but all these are but instruments of luxury the abuse of which far frmo being a life would be a riddance to the commonwealth
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oh but all this exaggerated and intractable this is not s... equalisation, it is equality run amok
what we mean is a system of equalisation not exaggerated like this but mediately? practicable?
There is no such thing ... you must do what is impracticable, or you do nothing ... where you will you can stop no where for any reason, which would not with equal ... have forced you to begin ...
In the first place there is no reason to be given [/found] why any have should be deprived at all, in the next place, it would be negligible to find any one given found at which to draw it.
Every step you take in the carrier of equalisation makes the demand for a new step not less urgent, butmore so.
suppose three classes; the most numerous of of course the least wealth;
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In the first [/place] al articles in which general? value is included in the ... of a rough article and that article individisible, [/must be ???] would perish altogether. All ... houses and pleasure grounds there are rough ... for which £2000 has been given - ... turns for which £3000 has been refused ...
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wealthy - to what ... and strikes off the offer .... having the .... ? The lowest, which they had to ... above ... found themselves reneged upon ... their immediate superiors by the superiority of the superiors of these superiorrs: now this compensation is at an end: and the ... ofthose who were nearest to their ... becomes state ... intolerable...
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Horses require ... and keep them ... to land upon them ... ... requires ... to hold them ... All costly which ... furniture, jewels, ... publications of articles must for the same reason go to the fire ... Were they even accumulated as an ... building ... extended to individuals at large at the expense of the state even that from .... management of such ...
management?
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law in general |
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jeremy bentham |
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benjamin constant |
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