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4 Aug. 1801

In vain would it be for him to say – This
is an argument of mine is in the stile of some of Euclid's – putting
an impossible supposition a case in itself
impossible, but the truth of which would be the necessary consequence,
if a false proposition, the falsity of
which is thus to be demonstrated, were true. The
state of things he supposes to be in existence
(viz: the proposed system in the extent in which he is thus to prove it to be impracticable)
has nothing of impossibility in it, but what is
to be proved upon it by the medium of argument he thus
employs to prove it: – viz: the degree of complication
inseparably attendant on it. But the degree of complication
attendant on the system in this extent of
it, can not exist, unless the system itself exists
in this extent: but and if the system itself
exists in this extent, then by the supposition
in this extent it is actually in practice, instead
of being impracticable. Such is Thus
stands the argument, according to the only plan
I have of proposed by me for the introduction
of the measure – viz: the plan of gradual
introduction – one magnitude after another –
each subsequent magnitude not being introduced
till after the convenience of the plan system as
composed of the several preceding magnitudes,
has been established by experience.

Identifier: | JB/003/447/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Date_1	1801-08-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	003	Main Headings	annuity notes
Folio number	447	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	1857
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