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1820 Sept. 20 19.
J.B. to Mora

☞ Per J.C. What precedes this was preached, and there being in J.C.s hand
and went to form pat of the copy.

As to the object of my paternal parental longings – this Code in terminis,
its destiny, if I mistake not, is to rest sleep so long
in limbo infantum, and then so long as I till I die, and so finally to perish
with me – all for want of an idea encouragement. And what encouragement?
Money, power, factitious dignity? No nothing of all
that is wanted – nothing of all that would be accepted –⊞ ⊞ Power I have no time for exercising: factitious dignity, except All that
is wanted is this – from a competent quarter sufficient assurance
that if as soon as brought to light, it would receive the requisite
attention, and take its chances for being put to use. And
when I am no more dead by whom else will could the there traced be
filled up with any thing like consistency? The By the Geneva legislators
with Dumont at their head their cap incapacity for this stands
acknowledged. I have his letter: and who else have apprehended in the making application
so near of my leading ideas, who else has come so near to me as he has done? Of he instrument, by which
in the field of legislation, I have been enabled, and without which
I never should have been enabled, to do what I have done – of that
instrument (I mean a sort of logic) I have here and there had occasion
to bring to view some parts: in particular in my work
ca intituled Chrestomathia. But as yet it exists only in parts parts,
and, though I have much more considerably more already in manuscript, I
shall not live long enough to finish it. And if I could, how
would it be possible to transfuse into any youthful rising ground the
whole exact stock of those ideas, which it has taken more than than half a
century to to collect to collect with mine?

Now this encouragement – this indispensable, and almost
of encouragement – what does it amount to? – To a hope that by
What is encouragement. The hope by a great service and
a great service done to rendered at great labour, to one part of mankind, I may
great labour of being able to render to other parts of instead
be enabled perhaps be enabled, at the expence of additional labour, to render
service the like service to other parts of mankind. If with the public benefit a little self-satisfaction should
mix itself with the quantity of good be lessened by it be found to mix itself, will the reward be too great, or the value of the
service be lessened by it?

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Date_1	1820-09-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings
Folio number	220	Info in main headings field	jb to mora
Image	001	Titles
Category	jeremy bentham	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public	letter 2689, vol. 10	ID Number	4669
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