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A 2 Political Prospects
to do by him, were then able or thought to be able
to be paid off. The In the supposed future case there could
be no option The loss in both cases the same [to
a farthing:] then as the if Lucretia was distinguished from a the difference this and this alone: in the
supposed future case [there would be] no option - no
prospect alternative <add>prospect</add> of any thing worse: in the actual past case
[the] option betwixt that loss and a worse.
In stating the two operations as identical the same, I
speak of the effects let it be observed - that of concomitant
circumstances or causes. I do not say
that it is better to have so much only and no more than money as to have
more. I do not say as some have said it is better
to have so much debt to have debt than to have none
All I say is - that if after having been accustomed
to receive £400 a year I am hence forward find myself reduced
to receive no more than £300, which by what
means the reduction may have been effected, is to
me, unless it be as an object of pure speculation
a matter of the most perfect indifference: £300
and 1/4 a farthing would in either of the cases be preferable better
to me for me than to £300 only in the other.
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