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An Allegory might be composed out of this first wherein the Parts of each might be more minutely delineated The Mechanic Natural Philospher Elignnot &c &c
are the Workmen employed in various ways <add>discovering the producing operating & working fashioning from the inertness of Nature</add> in bringing the materials
for the fabric of Happiness

The Moralist & Politician (for their task characters ought to be consolidated) the Architect that puts those materials
together that assigns each its quantity place and
proportion decides whether it shall be admitted or
rejected but can do nothing without them in vain would he rear it without them in
proportion as they are considerable his edifice structure
will be the larger & more noble.
This Edifice should he attempt it will can be never any other than an aterial one.

In Greenland in Kamshatka his edific could be were he there to be met with
at best but a wretched Hut — In Britain
where & (countries like Britain) is it that it is a palace.

It is his to take can that there be not Tis upon his Skill that depends their it's stability.
The more he admitts in number & of the materials brought <add>furnished by them</add> the more compleat the Edifice
it is for him his to observe inquire judge whether the number of the
whole is to be limited and whether any one is of so loose
and a Texture as not to be admitted without endangering
the stability of the building.if in truth there is any such an one the more he can contrive to introduce the more can plant workmanship.


CUDWORTH It may be said of him what may be said of a great many other writers who have wanted a great deal of ingenuity to little purpose — it would have been better for the Science if he had never written symbol <note>v.overleaf (the same may perhaps be said To ] of were it not that Fontanellis observation
his & so many other Reverris master Plato Aristotle's is an useful nomenclature which till then had not been formed. he is to a [practical moralist what Lindman is to the Philosophical planter.</note>














Identifier: | JB/027/013/002
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027

Main Headings

comment on the commentaries

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013

Info in main headings field

misc. eth. test of merit utility not abstruseness controversies management of

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002

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text sheet

Number of Pages

2

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recto

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c2 /

Penner

jeremy bentham

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[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif]]]

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ID Number

9103

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