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1821 Jany 13
Rid Yourselves

Here then is a vast proportion of the desperate time and labour
of the persons Constituted Authorities exercising the power of government employed
in no better view to no better purpose than the checking of
prosperity everywhere for the support of improsperity: lessening
the mass of national wealth instead of increasing it.

But being thus in however in this or that particular instance
by this or that accident it may be otherwise, considered in a general
point of view and in the long run the prosperity of any every branch of profit
will be in the will encrease and decrease
in the ratio of the degree of aptitude, in all elements of appropriate
aptitude, intelle moral intellectual, and active taken
together,
on the part of the persons engaged in it, in the
degree, absolute and comparative of prudence, vigilance
exertion, appropriate information and active talent possessed
by them. Among the effect then of the mode of supposed
encouragement in question will be the operating in the character
of a prohibition upon superior appropriate aptitude in all
those its shapes, and as a bounty upon all inferior degrees.

In a word it is an instrument a contrivance for the causing everything
to be done as badly as possible.


Identifier: | JB/036/139/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.

Date_1

1822-07-13

Marginal Summary Numbering

or 7 - or 8

Box

036

Main Headings

constitutional code rationale

Folio number

139

Info in main headings field

constitut. code rationale

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

b3 / c3

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

j whatman 1819

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

john flowerdew colls

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1819

Notes public

ID Number

11063

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