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1830. July 24
Je Be to Jo Bo
But, considering the end of work this individual has
been occupied upon during the whole intellectual portion
of a long life, — if in that work there be any thing
of a nature contributing to human happiness — if
the quantity of such contribution reins in any proportion
to the degree of diffusion & acceptance given to that
work proportionally serious will be the evil produced
by the extent of the observance given to
that policy. were I to see it observed in such sort as
to put a check to the effect of beneficent labour
in any other part of the field of thought and action
could I behold it without severe regret at the
thoughts of the defulcation thus made from the
sum of human happiness or without a strong
sentiment of disgust that the idea of the infirmity
in the moral contribution thus exhibited on the
part of the author. Add to these considerations that
of the sentiment of self-regard the general predominance
of which is a condition sine qua non
to the existence of the human species & you
will judge of the sort of emotion which it is
my destiny so frequently to experience.
What has the appearance of being another
stroke of the same policy is the placing my name
not on the title page where it would meet every eye
that took up the book, but on the outside of the
cover where it is scarcely visible & will cease
altogether to be so when the book is sent to be bound.
Moreover it seems probabilized by the Preface
that in recommending the issue of another Commission
for taking cognizance of the state of the
law in the United States &c the idea situation
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