[xxxvi. 33]

1821. April 25

First Lines

In regard to usefulness, (if so plain and vulgar an effect and quality were regarded as worth attending to), it would lie on those by whom, on this ground, the transferring /diverting/ of the matter in question from its originally intended destination, to the new one were justified - (from that destination /purpose/ but for which it would not have been produced, and by /from/ which alone the labour employed in the production of it, could receive its compensation and due reward), to a purpose so different from, and incompatible with, the only purpose for which it was produced. In regard /prove it: but in regard/ to this quality the existence of it being in its own nature altogether incapable of being proved is of necessity and with the utmost composure assumed.

If ever /of/ the existence of it /proof/ should be endeavoured to be proved /made/, it must /would/ of necessity be in some such shape as this: the quantity of obsequiousness necessary to the production of good government - and thence, /is by means of the application thus made of the quantityin question of the matter of wealth actually promoted/ if so pedantic and uncourtly, democratical, jacobinical, anarchical, impious, and blasphemous a phrase be insisted upon, the greatest happiness of the greatest number is insisted upon is promoted by means of the applicayion thus made of the quantity in question of the matter of wealth, actually promoted: but as of of that quantity of wealth no part at all were thus employed, civil society would not, to any effect, have existence, so by any and every defalcation made from the quantity of that precious matter thus applied, a proportionable defalcation from the quantity of happiness enjoyed by the greatest number would be made.