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Prefat (Reward)
paramount, to whom which by a right paramount in
which all others are absorbed [this profession as
well as every other is itself a debtor] every
profession and every man in or out of a profession
is a debtor for as much as he can do perform pay for
it
In the shuffling of the political creeds there
is no saying what accidents may turn up.
Who could have thought of the Privilege Act &c
Thus we say to the misanthrope.
First to the candid we say, that there is that
fund of solid virtue in their country, when
accidents concur & when properly called for, that
is equal to any plan of improvement that can
be conceived.
Arrangement displayd, tho unpopular To form the arrangement of a subject requires it is necessary
to hold bring fast the keeping of all the parts of that subject in into the
mind together: to comprehend an arrangement
it is necessary to hold them there. If the first
former effort is great and painful, the latter is
not inconsiderable. To those therefore who are not
able or do not choose to be at the pains of this
effort every book which follows a novel arrangement
is unreadable. For all that I could not this
short and perhaps least unpopular work performance bring myself
to forego give up those advantages which nothing but arrangement a method such
can conciliate.
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Prefat (Reward)
When I think how open the subject of reward may still appear
after this book has done it's office, my heart misgives me.
[But] when I think on the how little that has been said on it before hitherto
me I take courage I might stile it indeed
The subject new [It is] a virgin subject. Montesquieu has
but one chapter on it consisting of one page: it [which is so short that
I shall here reprint it with a commentary [Qu]
Beccaria nothing: not a syllable [for his design did not extend
to it.] Even the industry of compilers has here
been wanting. Grotius has nothing on this subject.
Puffendorf but a page or not above
two or three times as much as Montesquieu has
in bulk, and not the twentieth part in weight.
Those who have imagined a phantom of a law which they call
of nature acting by coercion have imagined
no law of nature acting by reward.
Germany that rich mine of literature treasures
almost unknown in to England, Germany has produced
within this year or two a book entitled on Virtues and
Rewards
Laws Simplicity of knowledge )( ignorance frequent & What Puffendorf Montesquieu says amounts to this
little because there is but little of it: what Puffendorf
says amounts to nothing
The public have no right to expect that this
mine should be open'd & worked out all at once
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