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§.4. (8) +
Among the inventions of this labour - abridging class, there is
not any, but what (as is well known ) cannot but be attended with
very serious danger, at the hands of the handicrafts, who, with or
without sufficient reason, behold in an establishment of the nature
in question, a cause of their being thrown out of employment.
Many instances could be adduced, of manufactories of this class
destroyed, and the undertakers ruined, by the operation of this cause.
At this very time, I happen to know of an ingenious young
gentleman, who, having, with the benefit of my brother's ideas,
as recorded among his specifications, & carried into execution in
one of his machines, set up a Saw-Mill, has by rumours & even
menaces, been kept in a state of perpetual terror, ever since
it has been at work. With all the assistance he has derived, as above,
yet, for removing this or that difficulty, real or imagined,
in making, as it seemed to him, this or that beneficial
addition or alteration, he has, in various particulars, drawn
upon his own ingenuity, which is of no ordinary stamp.

By and by, this or that less ingenious person, having, by some
means or other, obtained information of his plan, when wrought
up to its highest state of perfection, may set up a manufactory
of the same kind, unincumbered with any of those preliminary
and experimental expences, and, by superiority of capital, undersell
him, and thus, driving him out of the market, set himself up in
his place.

In the privileged and completely protected situation, in which,
in my Panopticon Penitentiary Establishment, my brother's works
would have been carried on, all such dangers would have been
out of the case.




Identifier: | JB/122/495/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

122

Main Headings

Panopticon

Folio number

495

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

Copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.

Page Numbering

F15 / F16

Penner

Watermarks

JOHN DICKINSON & Co 1809

Marginals

Paper Producer

A. Levy

Corrections

Jeremy Bentham

Paper Produced in Year

1809

Notes public

ID Number

002

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