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But must the suppose choice.

§. Of the class from whence they are taken, the character
determined by qualifications of a pecuniary nature, not
by intellectual, or moral qualifications, except in so
far as those may be inferred from the others.

That if capable of with equal promise and assurance
the possession of these were capable of being ascertained
moral qualifications of an internal nature the intellectual and moral class
would be abundantly preferable to those external ones, is
what no men will a point scarce open to dispute.

Suppose the internal qualifications possessed present
the external ones are unnecessary: suppose the internal
ones absent, the external are unavailing.

But if the external qualification in question
the presence or absence may to a degree of correctness sufficient for practice be and are ascertained without
difficulty, and in a in a manner without choice without need of choice:
whereas to determine concerning the presence of or
absence of qualifications of the moral or intellectual
class cast, an operation of extreme difficulty, and not
on any rational principle not to be performed but
under favour with the advantage of long intercourse, is in other words to exercise choice.

But to exercise choice requires some person or
persons to exercise it: and that chance in the case
in question choice is a wrong an ill-adapted principle of selection, chance
the only well-adapted one, has been endeavoured to be shown
above.

Identifier: | JB/035/150/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1	1808-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	150	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10743
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