JB/036/201/002

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1821. May 12.
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subjected to a proportionable diminution. Suppose the shape
of it that of an annuity or fixed salary, to continue during
the time the workman was occupied in the work, the
reward would, in this case also, be a bounty upon delay: and
in this case likewise, interest set in opposition to duty

True it is that if reward in any such shape
were necessary to the obtainment of the service, this being
supposed, by a sort of mixture of the present with the future –
by a mixture of this sort, of antecedent or concomitant reward, with future contingent and subsequent – by a mixture of this sort if made in apt proportions, the objections
abovementioned might, in good measure, if not
altogether, be removed.

But even suppose this effected, the
consideration of the situation of the hand or hands from which alone, in
any case, the reward would be to be received, presents another
circumstance that would be in a state of irremediable incurable opposition
to the goodness of the work itself: of the work itself, or,
at any rate, the services rendered to the ultimate receipt of the service intended by the execution of it.

1. In a any representative democracy,⊞ ⊞ as yet in existence
security would the operative
rulers think of
accepting, at the hands
of any individual with
the intention of taking
it into consideration,
any such work from any living author the
would riot; everywhere, from any living author thereto of giving acceptance to any
such work: – not even if proffered ready made; much less of giving, or offering,
any reward for the obtainment of any such service. setting about and framing any such work.

2. In a Monarchy, absolute or limited, by the Monarch no work on
the subject in question, directed to the end in question, could consistently with the unchangeable nature
of man, unless in the extraordinary case of a desire to abdicate, be wished for: wished for, either by the Monarch, or
by any other individual, acting according in conformity to his wishes: for no work,
directed to any other end, than that of the sacrifice of the greatest
happiness of the greatest number, could manifest itself without
any sensible sacrifice of the particular interest of that one, could
acceptance, and thereby usefulness, be reasonably expected. for
any such work Here, then, would be a temptation, by which the
workman would be continually excited, either to take for the entire
purpose of his labours, in the first instance, and in the whole together,
an improper purpose, or, in this or that matter of detail, on this
or that particular occasion to be continually turning aside from
the only proper, to this or that particular improper, purpose. here
suppose Let the temptation even experience a resistance ever so compleat
and effectual, still the fact of its effectiveness could not, in the nature
of the case, be universally or generally matter of notoriety. By the
suspicions which, in this state of things, it would be impossible altogether
to wipe away, even if acceptance were not prevented, that esteem, on
which the goodness of the service done by the production of the work so materially
depends, would unavoidably
be lessened.

Identifier: | JB/036/201/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-08-30	Marginal Summary Numbering	8-11
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	201	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b4 / c1 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11125
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