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What concerns me to <del>think</del><add>reflect on</add> is, that at any rate more<lb/> | |||
or less of the public money <gap/> be given <del>in</del> away, and<lb/> | |||
in a certain sense for nothing, and <add>even</add> more of it, <del><gap/></del><add>under</add> the arrangement<lb/> | |||
<add>to</add> which I should gain the preference, than <add>has been given</add> at present<lb/> | |||
Had no such su as £1000 been given to the<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">spurious</hi> inventor, I must confess I see no adequate justification<lb/> | |||
for giving any such sum to the <hi rend="underline">real</hi> one: but one<lb/> | |||
such sum having been given <hi rend="underline">unjustly</hi> (though with very pure<lb/> | |||
intentions and from any honourable motives, yet as it turns<lb/> | |||
out unjustly) <hi rend="underline">another</hi> such sum <add>or something equivalent</add> seems absolutely <del>separate</del><lb/> | |||
necessary to <hi rend="underline">rectify the injustice</hi>. <del>The forth</del> | |||
<add>To give</add> the <hi rend="underline">first</hi> £1000 was <del>not</del><add>far from</add> necessary to the <hi rend="underline">promoting</hi> of the<lb/> | |||
<del>object of the establishment</del><add>purpose of the Board<add>institution in question:- | |||
the</add></add><add> <del>was taken</del> for the encouragement of Agriculture</add> but to withhold the <hi rend="underline">second</hi>, would<lb/> | |||
be to <hi rend="underline">counteract</hi> them. The giving the first was an injury<lb/> | |||
done to the public by mistake: <del>not</del> the persisting in not<lb/> | |||
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What concerns me to thinkreflect on is, that at any rate more
or less of the public money be given in away, and
in a certain sense for nothing, and even more of it, under the arrangement
to which I should gain the preference, than has been given at present
Had no such su as £1000 been given to the
spurious inventor, I must confess I see no adequate justification
for giving any such sum to the real one: but one
such sum having been given unjustly (though with very pure
intentions and from any honourable motives, yet as it turns
out unjustly) another such sum or something equivalent seems absolutely separate
necessary to rectify the injustice. The forth
To give the first £1000 was notfar from necessary to the promoting of the
object of the establishmentpurpose of the Board<add>institution in question:-
the</add> was taken for the encouragement of Agriculture but to withhold the second, would
be to counteract them. The giving the first was an injury
done to the public by mistake: not the persisting in not
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anderson and elkington lett. ii |
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jeremy bentham |
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