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10 Aug. 1808
To Mallet
(2) V. Irresponsibility
Minutes no check
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The only transgressions against
which in the way of
check such registration
can be of use, are such
as are not likely to be
committed.
When any thing , Minute Books are closed
Whitcomb then with Sense is — closed for his support
In a word The transgressions against which I see no reason to dispute
the efficacy of the supposed check in question — viz. entry
made or not made in a secret and invisible Minute Book are
all such transgressions as without any such that or any other check, the
Members would not any of them be likely to fall into
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Against such as
are likely to be committed:
except such
one as here complained
of, the pr (viz. production
of useless vexation)
they do not
operate.
The transgressions and the only transgressions against which I see any reason to
dispatch the supposed efficiency of the supposed check in question
are such as, but for the sort of check in question
it is altogether natural that in the sort of situation in
question none in general should be continually falling:
such in short for example as those into which on the individual
occasion I have in view, gentlemen did really actually to a certain degree fall
though perhaps without being aware of it: abetting
vexation, not superfluous and useless vexation — not by
means and in consequence of misdirected thought — but,
in the whistled, for want of it thought
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"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.
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Andre Morellet |
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See note 5 to letter 1986, vol. 7 |
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