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while the old before they wanted them were serviceable, not to mention the inconvenience
of keeping setting so many other kinds of work at
a stand for the time that it would take to stock the country
with [a sufficient number of] the implements in question
were it to be done at once.

As between one country and another the want
of uniformity between weights and measures is not so
likely to be productive of mistakes. That the weights
and measures of another country are liable to be different
from those of his own is what a man who has common circumspection can
hardly avoid being aware of: especially if the languages
of the two countries be different. are not the same. Here the
only principal most extensive head of inconvenience worth mentioning seems to be the
trouble and t expence of time which it requires
to bring the weights and measures of the one
country into comparison with those of the other.
This inconvenience is far from being inconsiderable:
but it can scarcely be said to belong to the present
subject: unless it be by the facility it gives to enabling merchants
of all countries to practise a kind of extortion if such
it can may be called, upon customers and upon one another
in virtue of the mystery which this circumstance
more than perhaps any other contributes to spread
over every thing that relates to commerce.

Another head of inconvenience which though not so extensive
is perhaps equally of equal importantce is that in which the science
of medicine is concerned. Wherever there happens to be any material
difference in respect of weights and measures especially in the minute
degrees the pharmacopoeia of one country if made use of in another, is in
danger of proving either uninstructive or debasive. This circumstance is proves a considerable
obstacle to the free
communication of this most
important branch of knowledge.
And a similar inconvenience
takes place in a greater
or less degree in other arts, the
success of which depends upon the
nice adjustment of the quantities.
nice proportions.

Identifier: | JB/087/156/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	156	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f11 / f12 / f13 / f14
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27681
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