JB/034/165/002

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1821. June 12. Codification Offer

the other hand all manifistations and degrees of extraordinary
good desert, will be not only placed full in view, but be placed
to the account of the individual, and him alone, to whose account they respectively
belong: in the case of divers draughtsmen, no item,
either on the side of ill-desert, or on the side of extraordinary good desert,
will in any distinct manner be placed to the account of any body.

To all instruments of depotism – to all corruptionists
– to all whose endeavour or desire it is to sacrifice on see
sacrificed to this or that particular interest or cluster of interests,
the greatest happiness of the greatest number – in a word to evil doers
and evil-wishers of all classes, this system of concealment, and
thence of equalization, by which evil desert and good desert are by
one and the same implement kept out of sight, is in the highest degree,
and in a double account, convenient: for, while the authors of evil
are themselves concealed from the eye of public opinion, they are at
the same time secured against all apprehension of any such
unfavourable contrast, which as would be presented to public view,
by the spectacle of any such merit, as might otherwise be manifested,
by the well-disposed, or less badly disposed among their colleagues:
by the well-disposed, supposing always the system such as to afford
admittance to any individuals, to whom any epithet of so favourable
a character could wish propriety be applied.

In this case, from plurality as opposed to unity,
two distinguishable sorts of bad effects, (it may have been observed,)
have been brought to view. The one applies to offices in general: and it is
composed produced by the want of restraint as applied to ill-desert, and combined with the
want of encouragement to extra good desert: with reference to public
service . The other applies in a more particular,
manner to the particular office to the particular function here
in question consists in the multiplication given to the number
of the persons in question: the in the number of the persons who are common in the at once able and disposed tox join their forces for the completion of any sinister sacrifice, the the temptation to which and opportunity for which may be found offered by a power so completely all-comprehensive. make sacrifices
of the interests, and prejudices:
and the extent the number are
the extent of which taken in their totality it, compared with that
of the correspondent sacrifices capable of being made in the
of the having of any ordinary office, as impunity .

Identifier: | JB/034/165/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 34.
Date_1	1823-09-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	9 or 5 - 10 or 6
Box	034	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	165	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b2 / c2 / d2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	10439
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