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Dear Ser, A few years ago you may remember I used to talk with you about a project I had formed of trying to penetrate into the interior parts of South AMerica: thinking [/hoping] that what little I had picked up of Botany and Chymistry and other branches of natural knowledge might enable me [/perhaps] to be of [xxx] service to mankind by exploring the production of those fertile and [/untrodden] [x/unknown] regions. If I recollect aright it was partly [the consciousness of] the weakness of my constitution, partly [/the instruction] I gathered from Helvetius, that gradually weaned me fromt hat idea. From him I got a standard to measure the relative importance of the several pursuits a man might be engaged in: & the result of it was taht the way of all others in which a man might be of most p/to his fellow creatures] service was by making improvements in the science which I had been engaged to study by profession. I had indeed gone but a little way in [that study] it before I began to take more pleasure inthe thoughts p/idea] of seeing its imperfections remedied, that p/in that] of converting them to profit: for the defects of the science are p/you know] the patrimony of the profession. That px/good] illustrious philosopher / whose principles however I am very far from adopting without destruction / at the same time that he suggested

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	104	Info in main headings field	letter to foster petersburgh
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / / / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 248, vol. 2	ID Number	56924
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