037_084.xml

Title: [1822 July 7 Constitut Code Rationale]

Description: 1822 July 7

Constitut Code Rationale

Established Religion none

Care men take to cause it to be inculcated.

By Their believing it to be false the matter is not rendered false: agreed. Nor what is much more material, true or false does it render it useless or if it has any so much as diminish the usefulness of it.

In vain would it be said it is not merely because it is true, but because being so true it is so useful in so high a degree useful - this is the cause why we make such /all such/ exertions /such [...?] is [...?] such vast exertions made/ to cause it to be embraced and to that end to be inculcated.

For the purpose of the argument it has been allowed to be true: let it now be moreover allowed to be useful: useful and to the degree contended by you. Why then will you believing /seeing/ it to be true and seeing the usefulness of it thus depending upon its being believed to be true - why will you afford and persevere in affording this assurance on your part, that in your eyes it is not true? Why thus counteract what you declare to be your own persuasion and endeavours?

JB_038_075_001.xml

Title: [1822 July 19 Constitut. Code. Rationale]

Description: 1822 July 19

Constitut. Code. Rationale

1.

Arrangements proper for producing the benefits proposed from factitious honor.

2.

Discarded here from the beneficial effects is addition to Monarchs power.

3.

Use naturally proposable, production of meritorious service to community, through Government or otherwise.

If yes, it must be by notification of the meritorious service, quality and quantity, that retribution made be made by respect.

4.

To maximize the usefulness of it in this way, is to maximize the value of the meritorious service produced by each acct, whereby honor is thus conferred.

Ends here to be aimed at are —

1. Value of such meritorious service maximized. 2. Expence of the reward minimized.

5.

Consider and or here 1. In each occasion, for service to be produced, benefit of reward must outweigh burthen of service. 2. The greater the service, the greater the award worth giving for it. 3. Of rival services, to obtain the most valuable offer the greatest reward for it.

6.

Sole shape here in question the honorary not for service in all shapes is reward in thus sufficient, or unapt.

Where by the service loss in money is sustained, remuneration commences not till after loss fully compensated.

So as to loss in time and labour sold for money.

If by the reward, future contingent service be intended to be obtained, not only actual past loss but originally probable loss must be considered.

7.

By apt and adequate notification of past service rendered, i.e. by honor thus conferred, the maximum of future service may be obtained at the minimum of expence: for the value of the reward thus rises with d o. of the past service rewarded by it.

8.

Facts proper to be notified here are — 1. Quality of the service. 2. Quantity of d o. 3. Individually whom rendered. 4. Circumstances constitutive of its value 5. Circumstances constitutive of the burthen of rendering it.

9.

Judgment of remuneration its contents. 1. Declaration of meritoriousness — brief reference had to judgment appointing individual punishment in criminali.

2. Publication of the particulars of the meritorious service as above: appointing 1.Typographical form 2. N o. of copies printed 3. How to be disposed of.

10.

Aggregate of these remuneratory judgments, or reports of Remuneratory judgments.

The Register of Meritorious Service, or Meritorious Service Register: or good-Desert Book.

10 (a)

Analogous could be ill-desert Book

11.

Classification of contents, at first chronological only: when a certain quantity of matter has accumulated add Logical or say Methodical d o.

12.

Acquiring from analogy the expence of such adjudication need not be grudged.

1. Not grudged is the expence of contestation, concerning any the smallest reward claimed by an individual at the hands of an individual on the score of ordinary service rendered.

13.

Without such proof and

contestation, or opportunity

of contestation, no

reward at public expence

should be given: thus alone

it is given on.

14.

Of service not great enough

to be thus notified,

the notification may

be left to the service-

-renderer.

JB_807_148.xml

Title: [1821 Oct. 14 Jug Util 2]

Description: 1821 Oct. 14

Jug Util

2

Plan of Procedure

2

Rule 3. Take Natural Religion for the object of the first attack: leaving Revealed Religion, as carefully as possible unassailed. See Bentham to Jean Baptiste Say, 4 August 1823, Letter 2988, The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 11. Bring to view in every occasion the alliance between the opinion here advocated and those of Revealed Religionists: in particular those of the English Establishment.

On the occasion of the attack on Natural Religion the question as to Usefulness and the question as to Verity will be found considerably entangled: to extricate them from this entanglement considerable care will be necessary.

In regard to Natural Religion, so far as concerns Verity actual want of Verity must not be imputed to it; for in that case the attack would reach supposed Revealed Religion: want of apparent verity is all that must be imputed to it: viz: from the want of sufficient evidence: of the sufficient evidence which Revealed Religion is supposed to have furnished.

So far as regards Usefulness, the first point to prove is the negative point—namely the want of positive usefulness. On this occasion the argument is more at liberty, than when the positive mischievousness is brought to view. For here, as in the case of the question of verity, the deficiency tells in favour of supposed Revealed Religion: whereas when you come to speak of positive mischievousness, it is not without difficulty that you will be able to keep the attack clear of supposed Revealed Religion. In addition to the fears inseparable from it, the positive mischiefs will consist chiefly of the mischiefs produced by all confessed false Religions, and those produced by the misconception and misapplication of the alledged only true one.