059-164.xml

Title: [13 August 1804 Procedure False]

Description: 13 August 1804

Procedure

False ends

Of men in general, in a certain sense it is true, that every man on every occasion is and will ever be governed by his own interest: in another sense it is not true.

Of every man it is true to say, that on each occasion he will be governed /his conduct will be determined/ if there be but one motive acting on him at a time, by the force of that one /sole/ operating motive: if there be several, and of these several two or more acting in opposite directions, by the unbalanced of the preponderative motive or set of motives. This is not in any respect less true of psychological action, than of physical: an action without a motive /in the one instance as in the other a motive/, is an effect without a cause.

059-170.xml

Title: [13 August 1804 Procedure False]

Description: 13 August 1804

Procedure

False ends

A corporation (it might be observed with equal propriety) has no ------. The truth of this proposition is the joint result of two distinct causes. In a case where humanity - regard for the interests, sympathy for the sufferings of determinate individuals concurs with the power of the ------ ------ love of reputation in --- engaging mass conduct and language on the side of the most extended public interest of that form which in the eyes of the public and perhaps of the agent himself would appear to be the form of the party rival principle - the principle of ------ ------ a great part will be a ----- the form of the semi-sound principle, the law of regulation, or perhaps the ---- prejudice of fashion /propensity to ------/. When the distant voice of genuine public interest has been drowned /the ---- of the ----/ by the voice of specious public interest - the sinister interest of a small part /-----/ of the public. Such part of the comprized form as in the case of individual agency acting in pursuit of individual interest would have consisted of the form of moral ---- and on that character have acted on the same side as /side of/ the public interest is now ----- against that interest, and acts on the side of the sinister interest - the interest of the particular body.

On the other hand

059-166.xml

Title: [13 August 1804 Procedure False]

Description: 13 August 1804

Procedure

False ends

As to might and might not - is there a or is there not any sense in which it is true that every man, on every occasion ought to pursue his own interest? The answer depends upon the meaning attached to the words ought and ought not. Upon the principle of utility, every man ought on every occasion every man ought to maintain /pursue/ that line of conduct which on his part is that most conducive to the aggregate interest of the community: every man ought not to pursue - ought to avoid pursuing - every other line. Ought he so to do? What more, what else can this mean, save that it is desirable that he should do so? Desirable in the eyes of every one who on the occasion in hand regards the interest of the community as his own. Ought he to do? Good - but will he? Can he? Most certainly if urged to forbear doing so by any actually predominant interests, well or ill /rightly or wrongly/ understood.

------- them of the actually /actual/ solely-operating or preponderant interest the application of the word ought or the words /its opposite/ ought not is alike /equally/ idle and improper. Suppressing action under the consideration of obligation - moral obligation - is of no use. He will do /a man will perform/ the act in question: the act being certain /------/ what additional certainty can it receive from its being his duty i.e. thought or said by others to be his duty to do /perform/ it? He will not do the act in question: this being certain, what effectual opposition can it receive from the circumstance of its being his duty to abstain from it?