5 May 1805

Evidence

Introd.

Ch. 10 x Capricious Ends

 Composed with Ch. Take Ends in general

Ch. 10. Of the Capricious /phantastic/ ends of Procedure.

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 A phatastic end, an end either irreconcilable with the [...?] legitimate ends or of which the [...?] to those ends is not brought to view.

Every object of which there is occasion to speak must have a name to speak of it by /by which it may be spoken of/: every article which there may be occasion to class to aggregate to others must have a classical name /appellative/ to receive[?] it.

Of the legitimate ends of procedure an ample delineation has been given: - of the sinister end or ends a delineation likewise /also/ of no inconsiderable amplitude.

On taking a survey of any /the/ established System of procedure of all most any country arrangements will /may/ at the same time be found, of which it will be clear that they never could have been directed to the attainment of any of the legitimate ends - or at any rate that they have not in any point of view any the smallest tendency to promote the accomplishment of any of these ends, at the same time that neither do they appear by any particular marks appear to have been directed to the attainment of any sinister end. Let the end to which they appear in this case to have been directed be distinguished by the name of capriciously-chosen ends, or to save words, capricious ends.

I speak of an arrangement as directed to the attainment of a capricious end, when the object to the accomplishment of which it is directed, is declared /avowed/ or otherwise manifested but when no connection which it has either with any /one/ of the legitimate ends or with any modification of the /any/ sinister end, as above characterized, is discernible.