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A title must not descend without an income to support
at least a title importing power as well as honour
must not descend without an income to support it,
but in your happier and more enlightened nation
the title would be made to give way to national
utility not national utility to the title.

"But a title without wealth to support it is
"a burthen" – I doubt it. A titled man without
wealth is certainly not so well off as a man who
has both wealth and title. But a titled man
without wealth is better off than a poor man
who has neither wealth nor title. one nor t'other. A title draws
wealth after it: a title tells in marriage: and every other line of advancement: a titleless
destruction and advantages which are even
wealth can scarcely purchase. The question however
is scarce worth discussing. You have a
short way of getting rid of it, which is by making
the title share the fate of the estate. I shall
have occasion to present offer you further reason for
adopting this expedient and that upon a more
extended scale, when I come to the inexhaustible
source of depredation, alms giving to titled beggary.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	19-20
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	039	Info in main headings field	appropriation supply
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 680, vol. 4	ID Number	3340
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