24 June 1804

Procedure G

27 (1)

Ends

Ch

'.6. Expression uniform

'.6 Necessity and mode of reducing the several particular ends of procedure to a uniform expression

Insert or omitt as superseded?

In The main ends of procedure /the system/ we have seen so many lots of positive good: in the several collateral ends so many lots of negative good, consisting in the avoidance of so many /the several/ evils to which the pursuit of that good in its several shapes is liable to give birth.

The propositions constitutive[?] of the main ends are therefore not only each of them susceptible of an affirmative denomination /form, but it is the form, but it is the only form in which they present themselves naturally and to a first view. The propositions constitutive of the three collateral ends correspondent to these three main ends, are...? The Collateral, as language is composed /constructed/ scarce are susceptible of no /any/ other than a negative one /form //expression//: a /an/ expression formed by the indication of the species of evil, the avoidance of which is the object of endeavour in each case.

Evil therefore, or whatever be the synonym employed - mischief - inconvenience - being a term altogether indispensable in the denomination of the greater part of the ends of procedure, for the sake of conformity, it will be useful /of use/ not to say necessary, as it has been already found to be, + to insert it into the denomination of those ends (the three main ends) to the designation of which it could not have been necessary otherwise. The whole number of ends will thus stand one after another in the same form, and the list of them will thus be uniform and compleat.

To this operation the language fortunately enough, opposes no inconsiderable difficulty: prefix the negative sign to the several main ends, and the thing is done. Evils the respective[?] avoidance of which constitutes the three main ends as above, say, non-application of punishment where due, non-collation of rights where due non-reddition of satisfaction where due.

+ Suprâ '.4.