1 April 1817

Plan Cat

Introd

§ Exclusion of Placemen

or

§. Conclusions

Duty and Interest { 1. Identifying

{ 2. Opposing

Judico teipsum[?]

1

See[?] comparison[?] of inducing[?] words[?] by men[?]

Omit in praesente?

Reader to whom /in whose eyes/ the exercise of the faculty of thought is a pretence,

and the means of happiness of your fellow creatures upon a large /the largest/ scale

the worthiest field it can have, think of these things

1 Maximization of the aggregate of human happiness within the geographical field in

question the end. Call this the ultimate end assigning /moderating[?]/ principle

2. In respect /reference/ of men of all classes without exception, but in a more

particular manner, the class of the ruling few, identification of interest with duty,

the general description of the means. Call this the duty-and-interest-identifying

principle.

To effect this identification is the object and in so far as the endeavour is

successful the effect of whatsoever is done rightly in the application of the motives

of good and evil in the character of matter of reward and punishment.

Of all abusive principles and practices by which the duty and interest-identifying

principle is violated the most flagrant is that by which a man is made judge in his

own cause The principle in conformity to which abuse in this shape is established and

acted upon, call it the Judico-teipsum principle. (a)

In consequence of these words of which the ordinary matter of dis[…?], lay indeed in

these words. But in each /which/ of them is not the substance of a victim[?] to be

found?

Note (a)

Judico-teipsum. Be your own Judge a commission given by a

judicatory of Cardinals to a delinquent[?] Pope The story is in Blackstone