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1822 March 6 18
Rid Yourselves

Lett. 1. Plan

§. 7. The greatest happiness of the greatest number
required – that every draught so given in be from beginning
to end, if possible, the work of a single hand.

On a nearer inspection, this position
will be found composed of two distinguishable ones: two which, standing
on different grounds, will at the outset, require to
be distinguished. One is – that each part, considered by itself
should be the work of not more than one hand: the other
is – that, whatsoever be the number of the parts,
they should be, all of them, if possible, the work of that
same single hand.

In regard to each part taken by itself,
the ground, on which the position stands, – is that of moral
aptitude: two or any greater number of workmen
will not be so effectually disposed to take the greatest
happiness of the greatest number for the object of the
work, as any single one of them would: comparative
want of appropriate probity is the cause of the inferiority in this
case. In regard to the several parts taken together, the
ground on which the position stands, is – that of intellectual
and active aptitude: two of any greater number of
workmen, all equal in good intention and skill as
above, but taking each one of them a different part of
the work, will not render it so well adapted to that same
end as any one of them would, supposing him to execute
the whole. Want of consistency in the workmanship
is the cause of the inferiority in this case.

In the case of each part, taken by itself,
let us now see in what manner appropriate moral
aptitude on the part of the workman, and thence
aptitude on the part of the work, as far as depends
upon such aptitude on the part of the workman,
are affected by the number of the hands.

Upon the efficiency of the inducements,
whatever they are, by which the workman is prompted
to render his work as highly contributory as possible
to the greatest happiness of the greatest number, in despite
of all temptation offered by sinister interest in all
its several shapes, will depend, so far as depends upon moral
aptitude on his part, the degree in which the work
will

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Date_1	1822-03-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	008	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	124	Info in main headings field	rid yourselves
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	3228
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