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1822 June 5
J.B. to General St Martin Protector of Peru

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"And is it then" (it may be asked) a matter of such absolute certainty, that in
the whole number of the individuals persons thus distinguished, there
will not be at any time be so much as one, who except, by this much, is distinguished
from the rest of the community by any thing but his worthlessness?
Not exactly so. Whether by design or accident, or design
so it, almost every where happens, that among the in the general mass of worthlessness, some small sprinkling of
the worthy serve as a sort of mixture pickling and helps to preserve the
mixture from falling into absolute a sleep of universally sensible rottenness. But the less greater the proportion
of the worthy is, the less absolute the power of the patron is:
By this circumstance cause alone were there no other in the case they
they are of course looked upon with by the evil eye: and the more
of them can be kept out of the consistently will produce the
they would in his eye be rendered an object of jealousy and aversion
the satisfaction of
But besides this, in even these distinguished he beholds a set of secret
the public and secretly confederated adversaries: to the meritorious themselves
merit in whatever line — merit as such is a source of sympathy
and, of sympathy as towards more of this character, antipathy as
towards a man of an opposite character — antipathy more or less intense — is
an almost inescapable accompaniment.

In its character of instrument of corruption, a
bait of this sort, so long as it possesses any attraction, is the more valuable, in as much as besides its costing
nothing, there are among the fish that would bite at it
are those commonly some who could not be caught by money, in any quantity,
in which it could be spared. Moreover, by the of

of hand lowered



Moreover, among those in whose estimation a man would be lowered by
the receipt of money from a hand so situated, there will always
be too many, in whose minds, until the M be compleatly
dissipated, the same effect would will not be produced
if in any degree, or in so high a degree, by
the matter of corruption, if administered, by the though by that same hand,
in this less gross coarse and less palpable shape.

Identifier: | JB/012/078/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1822-06-05	Marginal Summary Numbering	10-11
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	078	Info in main headings field	jb to general sn martin protector of peru
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e14
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [fleur de lys] 1818]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public	letter 2891, vol. 11	ID Number	4139
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