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§.10. Foreigner best

As a one might In no cases will a bad code will not be so likely to be obtruded upon
the nation if when penned if by a foreigner as when if penned by a native so
Not being a subject of personal knowledge acquaintance. the foreigner will not be an
object of any extensively
prevalent personal
attachment.
So on the opposite
and corresponding account,
a
An object of personal attachment In good code will not be so likely to be rejected
when if penned by a foreigner as when if penned by a native
Not being a subject of personal knowledge, the foreigner will not be
an object of personal enmity or dislike.

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By a foreigner a bad
code not likely to be
obtruded: attachment

likely to be rejected:
personal hostility
towards him, none.

How intimate the connection is between the two questions that concerning
preference and that concerning admission and that concerning
preference is sufficiently manifest. The truth is —
that it is rather for the sake of the question
concerning admission, than for its own sake that the question concerning preference
is here argued. What is meant to be said to the reader is this. Fear not to give admission to
the foreigner's draught: for if it secures acceptance in the proposed character of a basis for the sanctioned
Code
any draught having a foreigner for its author is adopted,
having as his proposed been admitted ones to C adopted
the probability is that so far from being in the scale of aptitude
inferior to every draught sent in by a native,
it is superior.

So again in regard to preference. If, as you say
a foreigners draught if it adopted is likely to
it is only in case of its being regarded as considerably superior
in the scale of aptitude that it is likely to be preferred,
and if at the same time it is in that case likely to be preferred
to what are (it may be said) plead for the p that if were it be
but equal to the in aptitude to the most apt of those
sent in by natives it is entitled to the preference the
reason is — the observation here made may be considered
as made to each reader individually: and on that supposition
I say to each — If
among the several draughts there be one which being a foreigners
is in your eyes equal in aptitude to the most apt of all such as
are sent in by natives, fear not to give your suffrage in favour of the foreigner.
Why?
Why? because unless
in the legislative
body a general
p not only
that it is more apt
than that of any native
but likely to be regarded
as such by a majority
of the people there is
no likely hood of its
being adopted: therefore
supposing the draught
were unapt, then
no likely hood that any vote you can give in support of it will be attended with any pernicious consequence.

Identifier: | JB/012/065/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1822-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	065	Info in main headings field	to general sn martin peru
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2891, vol. 11	ID Number	4126
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