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1821. June 19. Codification Offer S.7. Foreigner, why.

themselves to the workman could not fail to stick close to him,
and attach themselves to the work: on the part of such members
of the influential class on whom, but for the intrusion, the choice
might, according to their view of the matter, have fallen; on the
part of the members of the community at large, a general apprehension,
a vague though perhaps not the less energetic apprehension
— of inaptitude on his part, either in a moral, or in
an intellectual shape, or in both.

Under these circumstances, nothing short of a
strong and extensive persuasion that, in case of trial, his appropriate
aptitude would, in all shapes, be found to stand the test of
experience, could, it seems manifest, suffice to produce, in the case of
a foreigner, either an invitation to undertake the works, or the acceptance
of an offer on his part for the undertaking of it.

But, in this persuasion, would be include the persuasion
of his appropriate aptitude — not only in all intellectual
shapes, but in a moral shape: in a word, the persuasion that, by
no reward that could be received by him, could he, if solicited,
be induced to insert in his draught any proposed arrangement by
which, if adopted, a sacrifice would be made of the universal
interest to any particular and sinister interest.

2. Another circumstance that ought never to be lost
sight of let slip out of mind, is — the power, or rather the want of
power, on the part of the draughtsman, more especially on the supposition
of his being a foreigner, with relation to the ultimate effect
of such his work. Be they in number, in extent, or in mischievousness
ever so transcendent, only in the event of their receiving the
force of law, can any improper arrangements proposed by him be
productive of any mischief, with which it may happen to them to
be pregnant. The more manifest it can not fail to be to himself,
that every arrangement he proposes will be more narrowly watched
than if proposed by a native, so much the less likely will he be
to put his reputation to hazard by including in his draught any
arrangements, for the support of which no such reasons as, in his
eyes, are adequate have been attached.

A good arrangement is an arrangement in support
of which adequate reasons can be given. If to this or that arrangement
proposed by him, either no reasons at all, or none
that appear adequate, have been attached, nothing can be more
obvious, nor more likely to be adopted than the conclusion that
no

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Date_1	1822-05-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	economy as to office
Folio number	014	Info in main headings field	economy &c
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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