★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
19 July 1808 + 16
Charge Observations
Use to other Accountants
5
1. Indolence, its effects
Producing question
about upon question
without regard to
relevancy or necessity
2
In the particular station filled by Mr Chief Inspector, to throw out
To administer put <add> to </add> question upon after question, and requisition
upon after requisition, is an equation a process capable of being
proposed carried on without trouble Labour with very little labour , and almost without thought : to
all the trouble it is and almost all the thought in the shape of Labour, whether of mind, a body <add> or purse, all the burthen </add> attached
to it is that which presses upon the Accountant: and
to this, when if, as they have been seen to be, the questions and other requisitions are
let fly at random, than may be no discoverable end. (To ascertain)
In regard relation to each such question and or other requisition,
to ascertain whether to the purpose in hand it be not
more relevant pertinent and necessary needful may require will frequently ( not to
speak of judgment) will require as much frequently an incomparably greater purpose
of attention and vexation [+] [+] than the mean art of putting the questions and other requisitions upon paper to be <add> <del> expended
</add>. For both purposes, comparison
and reflection will be necessary requisite. and to judge
whether if in relation to any subsequent question or other requisition
to judge enable a man, <add> himself </add> whether besides being relevant pertinent it be necessary usedful
not being having been rendered needless by sufficient information
already obtained or made available from other sources, he
he must have take note in mind of
at such whatever anterior information has in the course of the same
business has been already furnished. From this
labour, as from in this shape as in every any others, rendition
will prompt be suggesting to a man in so far as required for his own
personal safety seems to permit, in every occasion to exempt
himself.
Identifier: | JB/122/154/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
1808-07-19 |
5 |
||
122 |
Panopticon |
||
154 |
|||
001 |
|||
Text sheet |
1 |
||
"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.
|
D16 / E2 |
||
See note 3 to letter 1986, vol. 7 |
001 |
||