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1819 Decr. 24
Radicalism not dangerous

+ + II. Nature of the case
2 §.4.IV Property in other shapes

The sort of the fictitious entity subject matter thus alluded to
is a Government annuity: money or what passes
for money, undertaken to be paid by the hand of Government at in
certain portions, at certain stated periods, and that for ever un till redeemed, in return for
money formerly received.

This being but a particular species of debt —
a debt then of payable in a certain particular manner, and
by a particular hand — the description thus given of it
will serve for all al all other debts — for debts payable in all other
manners, but and by all other hands.

Of debts in any other shape, or due from any other
hands, nothing need on this occasion here be said said: if the value
of property in this particular shape is seen to vanish before
the dividing hand, still more necessarily, if possible
will it be seen to do so, in any of these other shapes.

The difficulties that stand in the way of division
in the case of property in the two other shapes have
been seen: and in particular that which arises out of
the necessity, combined with the impossibility, of the process of valuation.
[+] [+] Another confession
must here be made;
namely, that none None of these difficulties apply to have place in the case
of a Government annuity. By a so simple instant
an operation as that of an arithmetical process, the whole mass of property in this shape
might, as every body sees at once, be cut out into any number of shares: me and
merely this, taking for the number not merely that of the 12 millions assumed in round at a round number
to take pen and labour, but the exact number of
inhabitants existing in the country, at the close of any given
day, whatever that day, and that number might
happen to be.

Identifier: | JB/137/118/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1819-12-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	118	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1816]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1816
Notes public		ID Number	46835
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