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it almost generally always in it's consequences so as when the persons
being here bring happiness of their own along with their exceeding any
misery they may occasion when they add to the state a security
which it wants and which it would not have without
them —
Now with a view merely to security or to riches, I would
take the liberty to observe that population to Britain in
security in strength in riches & in Security the first nation in the world, is not an object that
demands such anxiety; that population though a clear
accession to population when a clear [one] however small, is never to
be neglected, since, generally speaking, as being an accession
to riches and security, the causes means of happiness, it is an
accession to happiness, yet being but a subordinate subservient object
it may be purchased too dear when purchased at the by the loss
expence of the that primary one to which it is subordinate,
and that in fact it always must be purchased is too dear, -ly purchased when ever it
might be attached procured effectuated by other methods without it. that expence.
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jeremy bentham |
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