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1822 June 22d.
Junctiana Proposal

The narrower the spot thus allotted to
the company, the more speedily, of course, will all this
mass of wealth and population begin to run over, and spread
itself over the two great States on each side of it. But
be that as it may, the practice frontier on each side can
scarce fail to be marked by with a flowing tide of
the matter of national prosperity in both shapes. Of
this influx, so much as is formed by emigrants from
other States will, with reference at least to the two
States in question, be so much, created, as it were, out
of nothing; and in this advantage no other nation
will possess any the least share.

For any thing like a clear or correct
conception of the advantage derivable to any tract of
country, from the accession of settlers in its immediate
vicinity, recourse should be had to the state of things
in this respect in the Anglo American United States,
as depictured in the various printed accounts
that have from time to time been given of it by Statistical
Writers and Travellers.

Felicity, in these shapes, has the advantage
of presenting determinate conceptions, by being expressed
by in figures. Benefits, not susceptible of any
such precise expression, but of still superior because of
anterior importance, anterior, as being the efficient causes
of them – are those which will be derived in the shape
of mental improvement, in every line, intellectual
and moral together. In the little Republic of Junctiania,
her two great neighbours, parents as they are
to her, would enjoy the benefit of a Common School,
set down established under the eyes of both of them; and all-comprehensive
School, of every thing that is useful in
art and science, but more particularly of those things
that are most useful, good legislation, good judicature,
good government in every line. This indeed supposes
and assumes, that the territory of Junctiania
will be a member of the Anglo American United
States, and thereby, that the government will be in the
only form, to which that school can give admittance.
(See §.7.) for if it be in any other, nothing that is good can be
answered for, on any tenable ground. See §.

Identifier: | JB/106/284/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1822-06-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	junctiana proposal
Folio number	284	Info in main headings field	junctiana proposal
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d20 / e2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	34872
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