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1821 Decr 18
Codification Repeal

Evil 3. Less not more apt instead of not more apt, hands the result.

Suppose The qualities aptitude of the hands being the Unless any adequate reason can be (suppose) shewn to the contrary,
the chance in favour of the best possible workmanship will of course be diminished
by every diminution in the number of the candidates:
and the number of the candidates being (suppose)
in both cases the same, the chance in favour of the best possible workmanship
will on like also occasions be diminished by every diminution – in that
the quality of can aptitude be shewn to be effected, in the aggregate aptitude of all the candidates. But for a work of the sort
in question, the probability in favour of aptitude on the
part of the workmen is rather increased than diminished diminished, than con
by that encreased by that felicity of connection, of which the work of interest in the English sense protection
in the French sense, is the natural result. For superior
aptitude
in this line, the most of appropriate is function in the most intense and persevering habit of
scrutiny and reflection, with a correspondent and adequate stock of information for the subject matter of it, is not too minute: and such
habit stock is more likely to be on
such habit is
more likely to be persevered on, such stock more likely to be laid on, by one who as the phrase
is, has mixt less little in the world – in the high world – in
the aristocratical world in all its several branches orbs –
than by one who has mixt much. with its ,
<purse and factitious dignity
A person not known to the patron, is whoever he be,
will have can not be an object of his choice: among those known, of those who are known to him he
whose who in most agreable his eyes is the most agreable
object stands a better chance of fielding by experiencing his support
than he who, even in those same eyes is in the highest degree
possessed of appropriate aptitude, with relation to so dry a
work.

To the apt composition of a work in by which the lot interests
condition of all classes from the lowest to the highest are is undertaken to be disposed
of, and while the for its success of it depends upon the state of the human mind
in all those several classes, opportunities for the observation of it should
not indeed in the instance of any of them have been altogether wanting.
But, for this purpose, a slight intercourse will in each instance be sufficient.
Slight is the intercourse
that will be sufficient
to teach an attentive observer
that the degree of whose
regard for the greatest hap
whose
literary culture intellectual and
moral culture has not
been altogether wanting
or deplorably misapplied
the degree of regard for the
greatest happiness of the
greatest number is
rather in the inverse
than in the direct ratio
of a man's elevation on the
conjunct scales of
opulence, power,
and factitious dignity.
The less the need a man feels of the good will of others, the less solicitous will be his endeavours to possess it, and that he may possess it, merit it.


Identifier: | JB/036/170/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.

Date_1

1822-07-22

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

036

Main Headings

constitutional code rationale

Folio number

170

Info in main headings field

constitut. code rationale

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c2

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

11094

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