30 April 1805

Evidence

Introd.

Ch.5. Collateral Ends Incid.

' 1. Connection

These explanations being, /After this explanation given once for all,/ to avoid continually recurring repetitions, by the word vexation will be understood no more than the residuance[?] of vexation left, after deduction /defulcation[?]/ of so much as is produced by the two particular causes just spoken of, viz: expence and delay - forced expence and lapse of time. and the [...?] genus being thus reduced[?] to a species - the three species - expence, delay, and vexation (viz: residual vexation containing the whole remainder after deduction of so much as hath been produced, understand to the parties or one of them by forced expence or lapse of time, may thus[?] stand together upon the same line.

To each of the evils thus denominated to corresponds a distinct collateral end of the system of procedure: the avoidance of vexation constitutes one such end: the evil of vexation is consequently /accordingly/ the evil opposite to that end: and so in the case of expence, and delay.

Further on we shall have /there will be/ occasion to speak of those other collateral ends under the name of ultimate collateral ends. Why ultimate? because it is by the ultimate decision pronounced in the cause, that the evils respectively opposite to them the evils in the avoidance of which they respectively consist, are respectively produced. To distinguish from those ultimate collateral ends, the three ends here in question, let them be called incidental: they form so many sets of incidents in the cause: throughout its whole course as it runs on, they continue springing up as it were under its feet