21 June 1804

Procedure

Ends

Ch.1

'.3. Particular Ends

the main geneeral end of the system of procedure taken in the aggregate is the giving effect to the system of substantive law taken in the aggregate. This result being supposed of the desirable kind (a) - a good, (speaking always with reference to the public to the community in question, taken in the aggregate) a good, a beneficial, an advantagious result - and the mass of good those produced a preponderant one - the aggregate of it outweighing the aggregate mas of evil produced by the same system - being the mass, the reduction of which to its minimum constitutes, as just mentioned /observed/ the main collateral end - any failure which on any occasion may happen to take place in the accompishment of this main end can not but be to be looked at /contemplated/ in the light of /as productive if a mass of/ evil a mischief - an inconvenience.

(a) Note on a separate page [see 059-422]