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62 §.7. (26)
almost without exception, all over the United States) bestowed, upon the public
concern, such parts only of his time as he could bestow without
prejudice to his principal pursuits; and who, for securing their utmost
exertions in the service of profitable economy, had no other incentive
than what it was in the power of the principle of public spirit to apply: -
whereas in the Claimant's case, the occupation in question would
have been his principal one, so far as concerned pecuniary profit, his only
one, and, in addition to that of public spirit, an article in respect of
which he sees no reason why he should be regarded as inferior to those
Americans, there would have been the ordinary incentive - the
mercantile incentive of pecuniary interest.

3. In regard to the Pennsylvania Prison, whatsoever was
the scale on which the business was conducted - i.e. whatsoever was the
number of the Prisoners - the scale, on which the business of the Claimant
would have been conducted, would evidently have been much larger; and
that with the magnitude of the scale, the rate of profit increases, is what
nobody has any doubt of.

4. In an economical point of view at any rate, the advantage
afforded in the claimant's case by a principle of architecture, which,
stationing the whole number of the working hands at all times
under the eyes of the Manager, and the whole body of his assistants,
enable orders to be conveyed, at the same instant, to every one of
them and at every instant, will hardly, he flatters himself,
appear open to dispute.

In relation to the three last of these same Rates,
viz the 4th, 5th and 6th, observations to some such effect as the
following, may perhaps present themselves.

IV. As to the 4th rate, viz. Sir George Pauls and M<hi rend="superscript">r Bechers</hi>
Rate.

I Against the claimant
1. In


Identifier: | JB/122/518/002
"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

518

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

F61 / F62

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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