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Promulgation
Separation of Professions beneficial — So of Laws. (1 It is an observation frequent in the mouths
of Political Oeconomists, how much the object
of their science (I mean the several Mechanic Arts)
has gained by the separation of professions:
it may be applied observed with equal truth
little not less would the end if it be advanced [Science itself be benefitted]
by a correspondent separation of the regulations
it contains.+
+ after this, or before, the Fable of the Bundle of Faggots.
Give to each man what belongs to him [to learn,]
apart from what belongs not to him, but others.
The whole main secret of promulgation and of composition
as far as it regards takes that # # notoriety for its end for it's end consists
in furnishing each man with just so much of
the Law as concerns him, and nothing more
"Divide & impera," a lesson maxim not less apposite true of
to the objects of intellectual than of political
dominion, may serve us for our guide — If
we look for a more familiar illustration, the
[old apologue] fable book will supply us. instruct us
The old ingenious apologue invented to exculcate the
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virtue resisting of union; + + to oppose counter resistance to disarm it expresses by it's converse the virtue of separation to give upon any subjects
over what a man would wish to gain the
mastery.
It is nothing more than what the fable book# would might have taught us # the force of them in union united that storehouse treasure of yet unexhausted wisdom — The twigs in the fable which by
their force in union, though when bound together typify the force of
union to stand against attack, denote by their
weakness when apart, the efficacy of separation
to overcome resistance.
A somewhat less obvious but not unimportant
rule is to proportion the [means] industry to expedients for
[circulate] communicate instruction to the suddenness
of the demand for it.
That just so much of the burthen may rest and no
more, may rest every where, as is there useful.
Laws of constant & occasional concernment. (3 A large proportion of the Laws are such wherewith
the great mass of mankind, nay even more
of the profession, except on such extra-ordinary
occasions as may not happen to a one man in
his whole life, are no ways concerned to be acquainted
with: under the heap of these, the few
with which they are sure to have concern, lie
buried.
Separation of Professions = Laws — Fable of Faggots [XXXVII]
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Part. Codes — Utility of. Prelud.
The more there is of it, the less likely he a man is to have
it all if there is a vast deal, he is frightened and
learns none.
Dealer (2 was his to look A tradesman works <add>A dealer who has reason to go backwards & forwards</add> for a number
of Articles, scatter'd up and down a Warehouse
in incertain places +, + holes and corners near at hand but let them be if he knows they are all past put up for him in a cupboard by themselves. the larger that Warehouse,
the greater is his trouble: but the size of
the Warehouse is no concern of his if they
all put up by themselves in a cupboard
in such a manner where he knows where to find them
from that moment and the largeness of the warehouse
is no longer and inconvenience
whether the warehouse is great or small is a
matter of no concern to him — a matter of
indifference.
If we figure to ourselves a draper who for the
greater convenience of turning to his goods called as
they happen to be called for, + and for the greater oeconomy in calling them up. packs up in
a one and the same Bale first a yard or two of cambric, then
a piece of Colchester bays, upon that a
of Muslin, then again a piece of Bosad Cloth
and so on to the number of 10 or a dozen articles
all interwoven into a piece, we shall obtain
a tolerably adequate and by no means an exaggerated
idea + + conception of the conduct of the conduct method ||
|| proceedings of the Legislation.
[There is} If there be not that man behind a counter who
does not see at once a glance the absurdity of such
a management: by what unaccountable fatality
is it that by the wisest heads in the great concerns of the nation it
should have been follow'd to this hour?
I never heard of any complaint of the trouble from men <add>Gentlemen</add>
who had money powers to receive out of the Treasury, of
any difficulty trouble they found in carrying away their money from there being more left in it than came to
their
share.
2. Confusion in Sorting — Emblem — Draper. 3. Laws of
constant X
occasional
concernment.
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