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1821. Novr. 28. 4 Codification Proposal

I. On the part of the workmen, inaptitude in the shape
in which it stands opposed to appropriate moral aptitude.

1. Be they who they may, the patron of or patrons will be exposed
to the influence, not to say subject to the dominion, of sinister
interests and prejudices. This has been shown in Section the
fifth. The dependent or protigo (for in English though we have the
thing, we have not the name) will be under the dominion of
these same interests and prejudices, and to these the draught
will endeavour to give effect, with the addition of any such of
his own as he thinks he can venture to steal in.

II. On the part of the workman, inaptitude not only in the
above shape, but in all shapes: in those in which it stands
opposed to the two other elements of appropriate aptitude,
namely appropriate intellectual aptitude and appropriate active
talent.

The pay is a determinate and tangible object: an object
to the value of which every eye is sensible: those of the patron or
patrons, be they who they may, among the rest. In comparison of
this - in competition with this - the goodness of the service, where
it is in any degree an object, will generally speaking be at best
a secondary one. The appointment, or the vote towards the appointment,
will accordingly be given - not to the individual who
is regarded as being likely to render the best service, if it be before
the work is done, or as having rendered it, if it be after the work
is done - but to the individual, whom, whether on his the patron's
own account, or on the account of some connection of his, it will
be most agreeable to him to see thus served.

III. On the part of the work, on the one hand comparative
inaptitude through precipitation, or on the other hand needless
and useless delay up to final non-execution, according to the
mode in which the pay is connected with the looked-for service.

Apply the pay in one way, the work suffers for want of
time to do it well in: apply the pay in another way, the work
lingers, and for a time more or less considerable, the benefit of
it is lost: apply it again in another way, the pay is continually
received, and the work never executed.

1. The work suffers for want of time to execute it in - if, a
time being fixed, after which no draught shall be received, the
interval allowed is not sufficient for giving to the work that
degree

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Identifier: | JB/036/088/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	18-20
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	088	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a14 / b9 / d14 / e9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11012
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