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it not been long for Wilson's going to Scotland. I took down some
paper, and read to him what I have written about the Religious
Sanction. The evening before I came away I happened while
we were riding out together to mention that I should like it very
well for the sake of expedition if I had 5 or 6 pupils who
were initiated in my principles to whom I should give so many
parts of my plans to execute under my eye. Upon that he
proposed my giving him such a part, for him to execute.
I was confounded at a proposal so unexpected: I had not insincerity
enough to make five speeches; so that I scarce knew what to
say. However as I found him disposed to work under my direction,
I took advantage of it to propose to him a work
which he might undertake upon a more independent footing.
This was the theory rationale of the Laws of debate in public assemblies,
deduced from the principle of utility. & open'd the subject
to him a little: enough to let him see and to make him acknowledge
that it was a fine field for speculation, one that he may
very well find his account in engaging in, and that his particularity
within his competence. The knowledge of Parliamentary
affairs that he has imbibed during the course of his index-making
operations gives him a greater fund of materials than
almost any other man could have to set out with.
If by great accident any terms for you to talk about
should happen to come to my ears I will send it you: but
at present all we have to talk about is what the great folks
with you have been doing or rather having undone. There is
not a soul here can conceive the shadow of a reason for Vessels
foregoing a certainty of engaging in expectation of a chance:
and we hear various accounts which concur in giving me to understand
that people in the Ship are as much at a loss about it
as we are. In particular the Capt. Lieutt. of the Milford I think it is
named on this occasion: the frigate who was between the two fleets employ'd
in
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Jeremy Bentham |
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