1823 Feb. 21 Greece Beginning Inserendum

To an objection to this effect /of this sort/ it must be confessed, admitts but

of one answer. The will, to which if the greatest happiness of the greatest

number is the result of it, effect will have been given by the arrangements

taken in pursuit of that end will be © not that which at the commencement of the

change while minds are as yet in their debased state of debasement would be

their will © but that which it may be presumed will be their will, by the time

that a rational regard for the only proper end of government together with a

right understanding /conception/ of the means most contributory to that end have

been attained by them. Happily as to what will be their wills, when once there

has been time for the conveying to /impressing on/ their minds this salutary

conception and the impression has been made accordingly there can not be any

reasonable particle of doubt. Official Aptitude maximized, public expence

minimized © when once proposed to the who [...?] can refuse to recognize in

these two short phrases the designation of the two minor ends immediately

subordinate to and included in that one /same/ universal end? Among the most

ignorant and prejudiced of men who is there that does not on every occasion

obtain whatever it is that he wants, at /for/ the smallest price at which he

finds it in his power to obtain it. What man therefore so ignorant or so

prejudice as not to recognize the advantage of obtaining at the like low prices

all such services as he stands in need of at the hands of his rulers?