1819 Dec. 6 {D}?

After Bentham’s Radical

Reform Necessary

{II Necessity}

Conclusion

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To conclude

As between Monarchical ascendancy and Democratical ascendancy, by which it is that the greatest happiness of the greatest number would be most promoted will be found to stand thus.

Appropriate probity, appropriate intellectual aptitude, and appropriate native[?] talent sometimes called in one word wisdom - those have been repeatedly stated as the elements of appropriate aptitude with relation to the possessors of political power: the statement repeatedly made, and the propriety of it never questioned.

1. As to appropriate probity, it is neither more nor less than the desire to contribute to the utmost to the greatest happiness of the greatest number, in that situation be it what it may which the individual in question occupies /is considered as occupying/.

On the part /situation/ of the Monarch, that this element should ever have place has already been shewn to be morally impossible.

But this element is the radical /fundamental/ element of the whole […?]. Only in proportion as this has place do the others either of them contribute to the above end. Instead of this quality, suppose the opposite quality to have place, namely a disposition to sacrifice to private interest to the happiness of a comparatively few /small number of/ individuals the greatest happiness of the greatest number, the possession of two other qualities instead of being conducive to that end will enable a man to act but the more successfully in opposition to it.