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1821 Decr 29
Codification Proposal
§ 7. Draughtsmen frugle §. 5. Admissibility universal
☞ Employed § 5. Admission Universal
1.
Above, nature and plan
now, hands: work, not
law as sanctioned,
only original draught.
2.
Phrases expressive of
the points relative to
hands.
1. Draughtsman single,
singleness and personality
known.
2. For draught and remission,
hands if single competetive
singly, the more the better.
3. For none, reward on
purpose at public expence.
4. Foreigner preferable.
3.
Reasons.
1. Singleness
1. Danger of inaptitude
obviated by responsibility
to public opinion
and sense of do.
2. Chance of aptitude
maximized
2 Reward none
3. Wrong and narrower
choices through self-regard
and private
sympathy avoided.
Foreigner best
4. Exemption from
native sinister interests,
and prejudices.
4.
Now for more clear,
correct and comprehensive
exposition
1. First as to singleness.
For property of contributing
in highest degree
to greatest aptitude happiness
&c. say, appropriate
aptitude.
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§ 7. Draughtsmen frugle §. 5. Admissibility universal
5.
Work's aptitude will
depend on
1. Do. of parts singly
taken.
2. Consistency of all.
6.
Materials given, works
aptitude will be as
workman's or workmen's.
7.
1. Position – 1. Consistency
even apart, aptitude
if in other respects equal,
will be greater
in one hand than divers.
2.18: 3.19
4.20
8. See 47
Correspondent to work
is function & service;
work executed, function
performed and executed,
service rendered. Post off
this to J.G.
9.
Elements of workman's
appropriate aptitude
three – 1. Moral, 2. Intellectual,
3. Active talent.
Elements of intellectual
do. 1. knowledge, 2. judgment.
10.
Causes of inaptitude, applying
each to one or
more of those branches
of aptitude.
1. Sinister interest
2. Interest-begotten prejudice
3. Authority begotten do.
4. Original Inbred intellectual weakness –
Definitions of
11.
Diminished are by
1. Sinister interest, moral
aptitude. by 2. Interest-begotten
prejudice, authority-begotten
do. and
original weakness, – intellectual
aptitude in
respect of judgment.
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§ 7. Draughtsmen frugle <head>§. 5. Admissibility universal
§ 5 Action for Universal Number Unapt</head>
12. | 366
Ceteris paribus, force
of authority is as number
of authors. In each,
opportunities and disposition
for forming and
expressing right opinions
are infinitely variable:
hence, force of one may
be many times greater
than do. of another: and
equal to that of many
others.
13. 367.
Together, aggregate force
of sinister interest and
prejudice constitutes
the seductive force, tending
to draw workmen
operation and work
from him of aptitude.
Force acting oppositely.
Guardian power or tutelary
force.
14. 368.
Seductive force, the temptation,
the inducement
to take the wrong path;
tutelary force, the sanction:
the inducement
to keep the right path.
⊞ ⊞ Note
Add here prejudice
more extensive than
interest. More the
15. 369.
Desirable, bringing to
view all the directions
in which the causes, of
seduction – of aberration
from the line of perfect
aptitude, act on men
in all the several political
situations. Time
and space and the occasion forbid this
here.⊞ ⊞ These variations called
courses taken by misrule
in the several situations
for the avowal as its several
ends: consummation of
the sinister sacrifice.
16. 370.
Suffice this general description.
Of all these
causes of aberration:
viz. sinister interests &
prejudice, applying
to all the several situations,
the tendency is
to
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§. 5 Admission Universal
Numbers Unapt.
6. contind.
to direct conduct in
a line opposite to universal
interest; so
as to produce sacrifice
of greatest happiness
&c. to particular
do.⊞1
17. 371.
Prejudice more inflexible than interest.
The number of persons
seducible by sinister
interest is limited to do.
of the sharers and self
supposed sharers. The
do. of do. seducible by
prejudice is unlimited.
Of the interested, the conduct
may be brought
to a right direction more
certainly and promptly
by change of interest.
Not so do. of the prejudiced.
372
Mixt Monarchy mixt
U.S. President's patronage
would suffice to convert
that State into a Mixed
and into an Absolute.
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