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Titre : An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation : printed in the year 1780 and now first published / by Jeremy Bentham,...
Auteur : Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)
Éditeur : T. Payne (London)
Date d'édition : 1789
Type : monographie imprimée
Langue : Anglais
Format : 9-CCCXXXV p. ; in-4
Format : application/pdf
Droits : domaine public
Identifiant : ark:/12148/bpt6k93974k
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Droit, économie, politique, F-17858
Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb30085224s
Provenance : bnf.fr
Date de mise en ligne : 15/10/2007
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INTROD.
C H A P. XII.
Récapitula
tion.
Mifchief of
ana.6t,the
aggregate of
its mifchiev-
ous confe.
quences.
The mifchief
of an au,
primary or
fecondary.
termed
c pi A p. xir.
§ ir. Shapes in which tbe mifchief <?/" an ~tS* may jhew itfelf.
L
T TITHERTO we have been fpeaking of the various articles or ]
JL Jt- objects on which the conséquences or tendency of an a<3: may J
dépend: of the bare itielf: of the f~MM/~cM it may have been, ci
or may have been fuppofed to be, accompanied with of the fc~oM/- ti
nefs a man may hâve had with refpe<3; to any fuch circumftances of the
intentions that may have preceded the act of the motives that may
have given, birth to thofe intentions and of the difpofition that may
have been indicated by the connexion between fuch intentions and
fuch motives. We now corne to fpeak of confequences or tendency
an article which forms the concluding link in all this chain of caufes
and enects, involving in it the materiality of thé whole. Now, iuch
part of this tendency as is of a mifchievous nature, is all that we have
any direct concern with to that, therefore, we fhall here confine our-
felves.
11.
The tendency of an aft is mifchievous when the confequences of it r
are mifchievous that is to fay, either the certain confequences or the
probable. The confequences, how many and whatfoever they may e
be, of an act, of which the tendency is mifchievous, may, fuch of
them as are mifchievous, be conceived to conftitute one aggregate
body, which may be termed the mifchief of the a<3:.
III.
This mifchief may frequently be dIAInguithed, as it were, into two
fhares or parcels the one containing what may be called the primary
mifchief, the other, what may be called the fecondary. That fhare
may be termed the primary, which is fuftained by an afngnab!e indi-
vidual, or a multitude of auignable individuals. That fhare may be
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