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it is not very methodically arranged: which is the less to be pondered
at, the as it is a mere private letter written without so much as
being asked for, & without any the least idea of any such honour as is
now done to it,
to my own part however (to deal fairly though I must confess that for my own
part I consider it).

As to the search paper in question when I consider it with a view to any application that can be made of it to as applied to what I understand to be your Lordship's purpose, it is fit
I should acknowledge I must unless I look upon it offer it however rather as rather a matter rather of curiosity
than of use: since as the view it presents is rather that of
a state of things to be envied, and of a system of manners
to be admired, than that of a system plan of policy
a system of regulations to be adopted to be imported to be pursued, carried into practice.

If one may give credit to it The three four great hinges upon which the
and established the perfection of the Scotch management relative to this matter
branch department of occurring the whole arrangement turns in Scotland, are humanity
frugality, prudence and honest pride:⊞ ⊞ the first on the part of the contributors
the second on the part of the managers
the third & fourth that the last together
on the part of the receivers. The first of these
qualities I make no doubt of our possessing in to at least as
high a degree as they; last is the it is to this that
we owe such as it is, the present system of the
laws. But in both the other points we have been hitherto,
& perhaps ever shall be are forever doomed to be, far behind them (if
it be pardonable for a moment to keep up the distinction
of them and us in speaking of the two great
members of the same great family provinces of the same empire. The a

The affairs of nations are conducted led influenced by two sorts
of institutions laws and manners. Ask your Gardener
my Lord, he will tell you that there are some plants
which will bear transplanting, and which are of a be intractable
a nature that wherever he wants to them
he has but to stick them in the ground anywhere, and they will
be sure to grow take root & while but that there are others of so intractable
&

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	115	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 396, vol. 3	ID Number	56935
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