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Ins. Offences against Condition — Adultery

there is no happiness at first, there is no happiness to
lose be disturbed. There can be no happiness lost
where there is no happiness to lose. It is the contracting
the engagement that is the misfortune, not
the violation of it. If the parties were not permitted
to [make themselves happy] consult their own happiness in their first choice, it
is high time they should make consult it in a
second. When the marriage is a marriage not
between persons, but between families or estates,
let the families ad or the estates (if it must be so)
remain united, but let the persons be [set free.] at liberty.

38.

Facility promotes happiness France It is worth remarking that the people among
whom their engagement the least severity appears in the observance of
this engagement are the people who are remarkable
for being the most gayest of any in the world in Europe, and
to appearance the most happy: and perhaps in that
gay nation the gayest are those that class of people
by whom it is least regarded. Not that that circumstance
is by any means a conclusive proof
that this facility is the cause of their gaie happiness
supposing it to be real: all that it proves
is that a considerable degree of happiness may subsist
notwithstanding the facility: and that the happiness
of the people is not in proportion to the
prevalence of the contrary disposition. The facility may be only one inconvenient pernicious consequence, & not in any degree or more of this real or apparent happiness. Yet this is
a people in which the circumstances in which the
happi felicity of a people are supposed should seem principally
to depend, are by no means favourable to happiness: by

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	33-38
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	095	Info in main headings field	offences against adultery - adultery
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23498
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