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1820. Sept. 30
To Mora

You Through our friend you gave me two tasks to perform.
It concerns me to say it – they can not either of them be
performed to your satisfaction.

1. As to the shewing that the a new Code ought to be made
without reference to or regard for any existing ones, old or new.
I agree with you compleatly, and as to regard and deference
nothing can be more than the demonstration of the absence
of it in those volume
it stands already demonstrated a and and at both ends
À priori thus. For Necessary for such a work are adequate appropriate
probity and adequate appropriate talent. No where can either have
had existence. What appropriate probity. Sole end or object
in view consistent with it, greatest happiness of greatest number
by no man can that object have been aimed at but by him
whose interest agrees with the universal interest. no where but in
in no instance the presence the have the rulers been in such a
that in every instance the interests be situation of the person by whom the
sort of work in question has been ordered, and thence of those by
whom it has been composed has been such as placed their
predominant interest in a state of opposition to the universal
interest.

2. As to appropriate talent. The greatest mass of talent will do could have
done nothing towards this end, except in so far as the exercise of
it had received this direction: in no instance except one, has human
talent, ever received this direction: the sharpest eye added
to the strongest arm will not enable a man to hit a mark if
while he looks another way, much less while he turns his back
upon it. What multitudes of men have come within my knowledge, in
unfavourable comparison of whom my force of mind, dependant as it in so great a degree
it is upon my force of body, was imbecillity itself! But what little I
the A thus possess – this is the direction that has all along
been given to it.

Identifier: | JB/013/030/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-09-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	030	Info in main headings field	to mora
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[fleur de lys] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	4479
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