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1821 June 21

Codification Offer

In Intense enough no doubt, and what is more in duration
considerable enough no doubt is the labour and with it the uneasiness
necessary to the purchase of a chance for the attainment
of these unbearably connected associated ends. Yet with all its
magnitude scarcely does the labour the contention of mind
then struck upon the mind which is seen bestowed and by
multitudes in country, upon any the most frivolous
pursuit that presents itself in the shape and under
the name of pastime. Witness so many games from
which not only the hope of gain, prospect of pecuniary profit but likewise but the exciting force of
chance has been excluded. Witness in particular the game
of chess with the whole days expended in it by the antagonists
face to face, and the weeks, months or even years
occupied by it through the medium of epistolary intercourse correspondence.
Value of the subject matter and object, absolutely
nothing: sub gratification accepted as an equivalent an equivalent for
the labour, the pleasure attended attendant in the exercise
of mental power, absolute and comparative.

In proof of the probability of a fact will the certainty of it will certainty by admitted?
With By no more than a chance and any may it may easily be seen may
one may see how a small an of a chance — for the obtainment of the natural
reward prize above described, for as sixty as more years than fifty years
has the author of these pages been engaged in the game of solitaire he
is thus playing. And in respect of the mental springs to the of which he stands
subjected, any more
than in the process
which are put in
motion by them, what is there to distinguish him
from any of the hundreds then of among the hundreds who at
this moment are passing before his window. Even in his
raw conception with all the from the process of self
estimation nothing. Some prefer one sort
of exercise, some another: at all determinable.
estimation absolutely nothing. Some are a little narrow weaker , some
are a little stronger: some are a little narrower, some a little broader:
so it is with bodies, and so it is with minds.

Right margin: pencil markings

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Draughtsman Gratuitous

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Intense as is this
mental labour, it is
not more so than in
games if skill is produced
by the
pleasure attendant in
the exercise of mental
power, absolute and
comparative.

Witness chess: played
at by correspondence
for months or years

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Accept certainty
in proof of probability.
By no more than a
chance (and how small)
if the prize as above
has J.B. been engaged
for above 50 years
in this game of solitaire.
By willing is he distinguished
from those
passing under his window
as to motives or powers
Some a little weaker
some stronger: some
narrow some broader
so bodies, so minds

Identifier: | JB/060/018/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 60.
Date_1	1822-06-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	060	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	018	Info in main headings field	jb to rivadavia
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2898, vol. 11	ID Number	19576
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