JB/013/071/001

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1820 Novr 15

In speaking of the necessity of my writing, if at all, upon
are a compleatly independent footing, nothing could be
more further from my wishes than that of being the sole workman.
Ev It would not be fit I should, even on the supposition
of my being in ever so high a degree more competent than
every other. For, age or functions might terminate at any
time of before any considerable progress had been made on the
work: and in that case, on the supposition that nothing else
was done towards it by any body else, there would be so much time lost.
My wish theref What I reckon upon therefore as an indispensable
measure is – that, all the time I am
whether I receive the commission or not, the Committee is going
on with its labours, just as if no such individual as
myself was in existence: in which case, even on the
supposition that, for the basis, my work came to be preferred
to that the Committee, still with regard to a multitude
of local points to it in respect of which I should be necessarily
at a fault, provision will have been made by the Committee:
by arrangements in regard to which it might perhaps be agreeable
to them afterwards to receive my observations.

Another thing I should be very glad to see is – an
invitation from authority (I can not say what – for by
this time Code is shape for as many individuals
as should think proper to draw up each of them a
complete Code. But, on this head, I need not say any thing more
here: it being so the matter being so fully discussed in my
letter to Emperor Alexander, or my "Paper on Codification".
they spoke In Howsoever it might have been in , under the wet-blanket
of despotism, in Spain, at the present day, I should not expect to
find any want of Candidates: For unless his work were bad indeed, every
such Candidate, though
his work were not accepted
are or made
any use of, would, by
the very operation of making
it, have qualified himself
and at he same time
shewn himself, qualified for
in a preeminent degree
qualified, for judicial and
other offices.

Identifier: | JB/013/071/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-11-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	071	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2713, vol. 10	ID Number	4520
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