JB/117/358/001

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In the character of a testimonial, not the less also for it, declaring
not being a formal one that whatsoever confidence had four years before
thus been reposed in me and to my plan was at this time doubled,⊞ ⊞ a testimonial not the less valuable for not being in effect for not being such in force – this
letter is of no small value to me.

True it is that to this multiplication succeeded and at
no very long interval an operative of a common the opposite kind – viz.
division: division of the 2000 by 16 to; quotient, 500: hesitation between
this number, and number 0.

Three fourths thus struck off? the half from the number actu
originally agreed on, – three fourths from the number indicated
by second and mature thoughts? – to struck off!
and for what reason? The answer is what to this moment reasons be they what they may are
remains remain a secret to me.

From first to last in during the course of the whole twenty
years during which it has been my fate to be involved in
this business in no one instance have I ever been able
to obtain any thing one reason – any thing that was itself
a reason, or that was so much as delivered in the shape
or character of a reason for any thing that has been
done – that has been done, including (what has been
the great cause of every thing that I have to comment) every
thing that has been left undone.

1. To find an extract a compleat answer to this question, if such
were the pleasure of the Committee, would, I a I suppose, be
within the competence of the Committee. All that I shall
presume to say is – what to the present purpose it seems
necessary for me to say – viz. that no any abatement of confidence,
either in the plan itself or in the author of it, would
(I think) not be found to be in the number.

Identifier: | JB/117/358/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	42 or 3 - 44 or 5
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	358	Info in main headings field	letter ii females
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / f17
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2110, vol. 8	ID Number	38975
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