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By whomsoever the plan may be treated as
visionary (and before adoption every plan is tre in proportion as
it is good is treated as visionary by the mob herd of
statesmen) by whomsoever I say, the plan is treated
as visionary, it can no longer be treated upon that
footing at least by Administration, at least by
Mr Dundas. Generosity or imprudence (forgive me
Sir, but how should I know which?) Generosity
I say or imprudence has precluded you from that
plea. It is then not a visionary plan: it
is you have said it yourself a most promising
one: it is a beneficial one, as much as the most
beneficial one can be so before trial. It is a
beneficent one. Then why, Sir, have you suffered
the very existence the <add>very possibility of ever adopting it its adoption to of it to stand quivering upon
a point? Why, unless from motives such as
the above have you delayed staved it off for these two
years and still persevere in staving it off? Why
is it that for these two months the author of it
has found you inaccessible Why is it that a
man who never troubled you but once, and then
by order not of his own seeking but by order Why is he
for no other cause
than being the author
of that plan to
is stand at your office door for two months together to and find you inaccessible ?

— Go take your arrangements — and when
you have taken them, and spent your fortune in
taking them spend your life in passages and amongst
Offices waiting rooms in for answers which you
shall never have.

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Identifier: | JB/541/596/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1794-09-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	596	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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