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1829 May 1. 6
Petitions

24
Supplement
Suits in pendency.
§. Objections answered

(2)
In the lips, and even in the eyes of many a man, to this
proposal, as well as to every other whatsoever how beneficial so ever
it will be a sufficient and peremptory objection — that it is new.
In these each same eyes, better an old established disease than a new
health, old established misery than new happiness: and of the degree
of this unendurable quality, the measure will be taken from, the distance
of the new idea to that which is nearest to it of those who of which the stock of the man's own old ideas is
composed.

14
Objection time not
ripe for it

(1)
Let it not be said by way of
objection to this proposal the time is not yet
ripe for it.

15
Not ripe for proposition
or for acceptance

Time not ripe for it — ambiguous this:
not ripe for proposition? not ripe for acceptance?
Which of those is it that is meant?

Proper question here — is it a proper time
for the proposition? if yes, reason against acceptance
has no application here.

16
If ripe for proposition
no reason against acceptance

If it be admitted that it is not too soon
for proposition every moment during which the
proposition is deferred will be a delay unjustifiable.
Till proposition has been made
acceptance is impossible: and the sooner the
proposition is made the sooner will acceptance
become possible.

17
If no good can yet be
done at any rate no
harm

By the earliest possible bringing-forward
of the proposition if no good be done at any rate
no harm can be done.

18
If not now brought
forward by the only
man capable when
will it be brought
forward?

Will it be said Yea for it will be thrown
into discredit: and by that means if accepted
at all, not so soon as if kept back till a
later period.

Answer, the assertion is at any rate ungrounded
if not groundless: and of its not
being brought forward by a man perhaps the
only man who at this present is ready and
willing, and competent to bring it forward
may not the consequence be that it will
not be brought forward by any other man
or if at all not till later than it will be if not [x]
[x] suppressed now.

Identifier: | JB/081/147/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1829-05-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	14-18
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	147	Info in main headings field	petitions
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f24
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	25934
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