The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...

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W. Tait, 1841

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5. oldal - The right and proper end of government in every political community, is the greatest happiness of all the individuals of which it is composed, say, in other words, the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
308. oldal - Whatsoever commissioned officer shall be convicted before a general court-martial of behaving in a scandalous, infamous manner, such as is unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman, shall be discharged from the service.
158. oldal - Common Law. To the pernicious exercise of the power of government it is the only check; to the beneficial, an indispensable supplement. Able rulers lead it; prudent rulers lead or follow it; foolish rulers disregard it.
219. oldal - ART. 35. I. In case of breach of official duty, from the lowest to the highest degree of enormity, in the highest situations — the Cabinet, for example, — no penal Judicatory but the House of Lords, no accuser but the House of Commons : and, of the Cabinet, every Member is so either of the House of Lords, or of the House of Commons.
158. oldal - Public Opinion may be considered as a system of law, emanating from the body of the people. If there be no individually assignable form of words in and by which it stands expressed, it is but upon a par in this particular with that rule of action which, emanating as it does from lawyers, official and professional, and not sanctioned by the Legislative authority, otherwise than bv tacit sufferance, is, in England, designated by the appellation of Common Law.
76. oldal - Instead of Judges, or a Judge— the Court. 'Instead of Rich men, or the Rich— Property. 'Of this device, the object and effect is, that any unpleasant idea that in the mind of the hearer or reader might happen to stand associated with the idea of the person or the class, is disengaged from it : and in the stead of the more or less obnoxious individual or individuals, the object presented is a creature of the fancy, by the idea of which, as in poetry, the imagination is tickled— a phantom which,...
14. oldal - ... existence. It is when applied to abundance — to the elements or instruments of abundance, that the nature, and, with the nature, the importance, of political economy is most plainly discernible. In the aggregate of the elements of abundance is included, as above, the aggregate of the means of subsistence. If the aggregate of felicity were as the aggregate of the elements of subsistence, no addition could be made, by any degree of equality, to the aggregate of felicity. But so far is this from...
5. oldal - on the occasion of every act he exercises every human being is led to pursue that line of conduct which, according to his view of the case, taken by him at the moment, will be in the highest degree contributory to his own greatest happiness.
14. oldal - ... needing proof to those who agreed with him and just as unconvincing to a doubter. Every code of laws that is to promote the greatest happiness, he argues, must do so by promoting "the four most comprehensive particular and subordinate ends, viz. subsistence, abundance, security, and equality.
18. oldal - that, so far as is consistent with security, the nearer to equality the distribution is, which the law makes of the matter of property among the members of the community, the greater is the happiness of the greatest number.

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