1819 Aug. 25.

4 Ch | | Cause & Obstacle Confounder

Be the person or persons in question who they may, their happiness is increased in proportion as their interest is promoted: the latter phrase is equivalent to, and only for a convenience in the mode of expression substituted to the framers[?]

Proportioned to the number of those whose interest is endeavoured to be served in preference to all others, will under every form of government be the number of those whose interest is thus endeavoured to be preferably promoted.

It is a greater error to suppose that because the greatest happiness of the greatest number ought every where to be the end of government happiness of the greatest number is every where or even any where the end of government: that because the greatest happiness of the those over whom the powers of government are exercised is every where or even any where the end pursued by those by whom the powers of government are exercised. The end pursued by those by whom the powers of government are exercised is every where the greater happiness of those by whom the powers of government are exercised. The happiness /interest/ which on this occasion as on all others, each man pursues /endeavours to promote in/ preference if not to the exclusion, of all others, is his own happiness /interest/.