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In one case I indeed I can conceive a real disadvantage
in as accruing from a bargain of that sort to a person circumstanced
like Mr Elkington. If a quack practising as a secret
of his own what is no secret gets makes a thousand a
year or some such large sum by his practice, it may very
well happen that the being finding himself compelled to
acknowledge that his supposed secret invention is neither a secret nor
his own, may give him the sensation of a hardship, though
accompanied with a douceur to the amount even of a thousand
pounds. I have said declared already that I do not look upon look upon Mr Elkington as a
Mr Elkington as an imposter. man of real merit, and by no means as anything like an imposter or a quack. I take for granted spite of appearances that
when selling Dr Anderson's published invention he believed
it to be unpublished and his own: on this supposition there
could not be the least particle of blame on his part, in
the stipulated demanding £1,000 for the disclosure of it.
But what I can not help thinking at the same time is, that when Dr Anderson's after the other
was claim was made, and the whole matter brought to light
and it turned out that what he had looked upon as his
own had been invented, practised and published many
years before he thought of it, a man of delicacy in his
situation, a man of a nice sense of honour or of justice,
would either have declared receiving the Reward altogether,
or shared it with him who had the prior title to it.

Identifier: | JB/169/178/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1	1795-10-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	178	Info in main headings field	anderson and elkington lett. ii
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	56998
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