JB/147/289/001

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15 March 1810
Sinecures

3. Facility of consultation – facility given to the business
of reference

If the arrangement of the articles had been determined
altogether by lot, still the list of them would in proportion
to its correctness and compleatness have had its use –
reference and dis in each instance discovery would
have been possible.

So far as concerns mere reference, facility of reference independently
of all enquiry into correctness and compleatness the order wherewith so as the
articles have but determinate names and those names intelligible of themselves,
the order of the alphabet places suffices to place this facility at its maximum:

In the applying of so familiar a principle of
arrangement, and applying it without deviation, no
very extraordinary stretch strain upon of any of the branch of the intellectual faculty either of genius of knowledge,
or of judgment whi would one should have thought, have
been necessary. Yet somehow,with how little sturdiness in how imperfect a
degree this principle of arrangement instrument of method familiar as it
is, has been employed by the Committee those Official hands, has already
been remarked.

The degree of facility afforded by the employment
of this instrument depends it must be confessed, and in
no inconsiderable degree upon the skill and judgment
with which it is applied.

The word employed as the leading word should be that
word of all words, which on the sort of occasion in question is most apt to present itself
on such an occasion, to the conception of the enquirer enquiring eye mind
and as since on such an occasion what frequently happens is very apt to happen
is hat words more than one present themselves as competitors
for his acceptance those which appear to present the best title whose title seems best
should be selected,
and to such, by
the well known methods,
to each should be given
its chance.

Identifier: | JB/147/289/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-03-15	Marginal Summary Numbering	11-14
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	289	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C1 / D15 / E6
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49514
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