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1823. April 4
Constitut. Code

This pretending is as to public rule
to actual approp. aptitude

Next and lastly as to appropriate intellectual aptitude i.e.
knowledge and judgment, and appropriate active aptitude taken together.
The greater a mans opulence richer a man is, that is the more ample the
means he has of obtaining pleasure in all other shapes, the less is
the price he is willing to pay in the shape of mental pur
labour, for the pure pleasure of power in this or any other shape.
Accordingly when in if by the consideration of the quantity of mental labour
and of <abstainment from pleasure in other shapes a man is repelled
from the acceptance of the function in question of this or any
other public function it is by this circumstance of itself is afforded
a sufficient proof of a deficiency on his part in virtue of
those too several of appropriate aptitude, one or all of them.

Take for example the English Parliament. Universal All-providing
as in the in go which any thing nears they were in the
influence of corruptor and influence, some individual there will always be of who if not by said sympathy
in a natural or animal hate, by the love of reputation
at any rate will be disposed to contribute on this or that
occasion to be infusing into the ocean of evil a small
particle or two of good. But for giving the people the benefit
of this small speck of appropriate moral aptitude, they are in
generally not to say universally speaking produced by the unavoidable
deficiency in respect of appropriate intellectual and appropriate
moral aptitude. True enough they have had for amusement in every
shape there need be one for mental labour in any shape.
for reading party: time enough nor approaching to enough
for the reading and study of those books which have for their subject
that yet most difficult of which with the
they are at all times so eager to engage in the possession and one and
other with in any shape to engage in the exercise of

Identifier: | JB/037/350/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-04-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	11
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	350	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles	note ( )
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5
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	11565
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