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2 July 1804 Procedure or evidence
2 July 1804

Procedure or evidence

Ends or Evils causes

Ch.1 2d Order

'.i. ------

 Evils opposite to main ends are themselves but of the 2d order in comparison of really felt evils ----- the really-felt evils in this case are produced by /are to be looked for in/ substantive law

Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas -

-----, mihi causas memora -

By evils of the first order I understand such as are so of themselves: such as would be so, if they had no other /are so, whether they have or no, any other/ evils for their progeny.

By evils of the second order, I understand such evils as would not possess this quality were it not for the inconveniences /this or that inconvenience/ of the first order were it not that this or that evil /effect/ of the first order is intitled to the denomination of an evil. whether it be that they are the same evils or modifications of the same evils under another name; or were it not for the tendency which these evils of the first order to give birth to evils of the first order.

# Introd. circumst: influence ----bility. Dum.
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