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the same name. A name is of no given to a man answers
its purpose no further than in as far as it serves
to distinguish him from all those with whom
he is liable to be confounded: and now but for this
necessary invention every man would be liable
to be confounded with every other. As it is a
man is actually liable to be confounded with every other
who bears man if the same name in the minds of all those
to whom either are unknown. According to the present
system of things [it unfortunately happens
that] many thousands of persons [are shall be in many
instances] called by the same name. This is
the case more or less in every country in Europe.
It is evident that this could not have been otherwise
without the interference of authority. The
circumstance that recommended a name to one
man would recommend it to another. Hence
a multitude of inconveniences are continually arising.
The infamy or the honour, the profit
or the loss, the trouble or the inconvenience which
belongs to John is bestowed upon another John
to whom it is as little due as it is to Peter.

Identifier: | JB/062/194/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 62.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	5
Box	062	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	194	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	20184
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