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3. It is of evil example doubly wasteful. Paying
men for being idle it prevents industry on one
hand while it wastes employs the fruits of industry
to prevent their growth.

4. It is of evil example. It gives an immoral
lesson: by holding out industry in colours of disgrace
and holding up idleness as a title to
respect. It contributes to prevents foments that mischievous
prejudice which considers one rank of men as born made only
for the use of another, and it increases cherishes those tyrannical dispositions
which are the natural consequence.

5. It counteracts its own purposes. The purpose of
such donations is to relieve the disease of poverty
in the class chosen for the object of the bounty.
In effect it extends and aggravates it. That part
of the population of a country which is composed
of people who are too proud to work and too poor
to live without working can not be too much then kept
under. All coercive measures employed in the view of
encouraging population are useless unnecessary and ridiculous:
as not at rational would it be to make
laws for encouraging people man to eat. People are as
well despised to the one as to the other: the difficulty
is to find wherever that. But two measures which havetaken
It is the most difficulty of finding subsistence,
not the want of the disposition that sets bounds to
an encrease which would otherwise have long as rendered
all

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	047	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 680, vol. 4	ID Number	3348
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