JB/037/347/001

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1823. April 4
Constitut. Code

Objection 1. unprecedented. This a test of aptitude

Objection 1. No man of worth will submitt to restrictions so irksome
and so degrading.

Answer. To make render the objection relevant, put aside all such
vague appellations phrases as men of worth, and employ instead
of the only relevant phrase – no man endowed with adequate appropriate
aptitude, in all its several branches.

This done the true answer is – no man, endowed with adequate
appropriate aptitude, will decline submitting to this
same restriction or regard them as being in any degree degrading,
or in comparison of other occupations, so much as
irksome irksome. A man’s doing so would be conclusive proof of want of aptitude.

The occupation of the Medical practitioner, consist
in the doing or endeavouring to do goo remove or exclude evil – in
thus doing good – upon an individual scale. The occupation of
the legislative functionary consists in the excluding or endeavouring
to exclude evil and thus in doing good upon a national
scale. In the cause of The medical practitioner ha no one assured day of rest repose
and relaxation. The legislative functionary shall it is proposed have one day out
of every seven. In no one day of the 365 can the
medical practitioner be assured of so much as a single
hour of rest repose and relaxation.

In compensation for all this To the occupation of the medical practitioner no power is not
any shape attached: to the occupation of the legislative functionary power – the highest in the scale of operative power, is attached.

For the occupation of the medical practitioner ther never is
there any want of candidates: still less for the occupation
of the legislative functionary could there be any want of candidates.

For the case That In the offices belonging to the Executive In the case of For no individual in the lowest order of
clerks – in the in the vast majority of the functionaries belonging to any of
the departments of the Executive would this same degree of assiduity
in attendance be regarded as excessive. For in no one of these situations
is there ever any want of candidates. That which a man would
have not decline doing for a less sum without power would he decline doing for
a greater with unbounded power?

Identifier: | JB/037/347/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-04-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	3-5
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	347	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	11562
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