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Preface.

can be more strikingly novel, than this very one which
our Author has been so laudably assiduous in promoting?

The tendency a man has to employ precautions
of this sort will depend, partly upon the
boldness or timidity of his own temper, partly upon
the experience has had had of the strength and
effects of those prejudices, against which it is the
purpose of such expedients to defend him. This
experience will be the greater the longer a man
lives, and the more he has been conversant in
public business.

As to our Author, his plan when in
its infancy, had already been met, it seems, with
some opposition from those whose objections he
speaks of as being "more fanciful than real."† † See Preface p.5.
These objections, fanciful as they were (and perhaps
chiefly for that very reason) were likely
enough if circulated and insisted upon, to take
footing and excite a ferment among the people.[a]
It was from these considerations probably that he
judged it advisable (and the wisdom of such
a precaution stands I think unimpeachable) to
sound

NOTE.

[a] The gradual establishment of Houses of Industry,
as they are called, for the employment of the
Poor, has at different times excited some commotions.

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Folio number	004	Info in main headings field	preface a view of the hard-labour bill
Image	003	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]]
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