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§.7. (25) 61
Observations

On the subject of the above mentioned illustrative rates of
profit, and, in the first place, in relation to the three first, being those
which are deduced from American experience.

In relation to these several rates of profit, I shall take
the liberty of bringing to view, such observations, whether tending
to the diminution or to the increase of the amount of any claim,
as present a prospect of contributing any thing to the elucidation
of the subject: in regard to such, of which the tendency is to diminish
the amount, looking out for such as appear most likely to present
themselves, and subjoining to each such answer as the nature of
the case appears to afford.

I. Against the Claimant. At the time in question,
the wages of labour at Philadelphia, Year 1796, and New
York, Years 1801 & 1802 respectively, were higher than at
London Ao 1793; also, on the other hand, the price of provisions
less. Answer. Not improbably. Without ever having made
any particular enquiry as to this matter, I should rather expect to
find it so. But the difference, if any, on which ever side it be,
would not be out of the reach of calculation, if it were thought
worth while.

II. For the Claimant.
1. In those instances, any such assistance as that which
would have been afforded by the Claimant's mechanical inventions,
is altogether out of the case.

2. In those several instances, the Management in chief
was in the hands of a set of public spirited men, each of whom
having other pursuits of the profit-seeking seeking kind (for this is the case
almost

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Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	518	Info in main headings field
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Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1809
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