JB/003/135/001

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8 Novr 1800
Paper Mischief

A state of things in which the ratio of the good mass
of vendible commodities to the mass of money should
be stationary or on the decrease encrease – in which the
ratio of the mass of money to the mass of vendible commodities
should be stationary or on the decrease is so perfectly
and without precedent, that the finds it is not without
some great difficulty that the mind can require shape fashion itself to it
the conception of it. The picture of such a state
is a sort of romance: and being as unprecedented in representation
as in reality, it is a romance of a
new stamp. It is like the history of Brobdinggnag
or Lilliput – I mean what those histories were
when they first came out sallied forth from the bosom of the ingenious misanthropist: not what they are aat
present. In point of instruction however it differs
widely stands upon a higher level from a romance: it vies with the gravest and
most instructive histories. The fiction is worth Let us bestow a glance
upon the fiction looking at: for if the state of things be pourtrayed
by it should appear a preferable one, it may be
not altogether incapable of being realized.

Identifier: | JB/003/135/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Date_1	1800-11-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	135	Info in main headings field	paper mischief
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1* / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1798 a<…>
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1545
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