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1821 July 9

IV. Encouragement of the Fine Arts.

By the Under the denomination of the Fine Arts are
comprised those arts by which amusement is f afforded
and nothing else. If in this amusement the greatest number were partakers
and at the same time the amusement could not be obtained
by them otherwise than by a forced conribution, unpaid
in all, something might be said if not in justification or apology
for the exercise of power exercised by the exertion of forced contribution, of money
from unwilling contributors for this purpose. But in these the enjoyment derived from these
amusements it may be said without any exception that
the greatest number are not partakers. The individuals
and the only individuals that are partakers of them are
individuals that belong to the class of those who are in affluent
or at the least in easy circumstances: who in a word belong
to the class of the ruling and influential few. In many an
instance out of the time money has been employed for the
defraying the expence of some source of an amusement in
what not one individual in a hundred not one individual
in a thousand are partakers.

Money thus employed is money taken obtained in the way of
robbery from the poor by the which for their own use, obtained
by false pretences: obtained by the false pretence of employing
it for the service of all or at any rate of the greatest number
when in truth it is only for to the use of the smaller number, almost
in every instance an extremely small number proportion that it is
applied: in the way of robbery taken from the defenceless by the class of those by whom a superiority in the scale of wisdom and goodness is assumed,
of the pretendedly care and good of the people

Identifier: | JB/036/069/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-07-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	codification proposal (codification offer); constitutional code
Folio number	069	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	10993
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