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What! is there to be no reward then for goo merit?
no compensation made to a man who has spent
his best days in laboring and meritorious service in incessant
toil with honour to himself and advantage to the
service? – Here opens a copious source of commonplace
rhetoric.

Where is it just as easy to give it to a
man who has no sort of merit as it is to give it
to one who has displayed the most consummate merit, the possibility
of its being bestowed upon merit can never
be a sufficient warrant for suffering an institution
so open to abuse and so mischievous when abused.
The necessity of providing factitious rewards at so
dear a rate is merely imaginary. Merit in almost
every time, certainly more particularly in this time has its natural
reward, and that infinitely less liable to abuse: the honour
an naturally resulting from the display of it. Between
the magnitude of the reward and the magnitude
of the service and the magnitude of this natural
reward there is a natural proportionality:
between the magnitude of the service and the magnitude
of the factitious reward is pretended reward
in question the natural proportionality fails altogether, as
we have seen, I have just been showing. Between the merit
and

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	045	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / d2 / d3 / d4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 680, vol. 4	ID Number	3346
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