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<head>1822 June 5<lb/> | |||
J.B. to Dr Foley (attached to Liberator Bolivar)</head> | |||
<p>Should the inexpressibly useful and truly supremely glorious<lb/> | |||
the Junction be endeavoured to be realized, fail not to remember<lb/> | |||
how irresistible the claim is which it has upon you for<lb/> | |||
your care. <gap/> Embrace the most favorable monument<lb/> | |||
for the endeavour to <gap/> representing to the <gap/> for impressing the our<lb/> | |||
Liberator with the persuasion which it <gap/><gap/><gap/><lb/> | |||
<gap/><gap/><gap/><gap/><gap/><gap/><lb/> | |||
this namely that, within a given space of time a hundred<lb/> | |||
living workmen will do more work than a hundred thousand<lb/> | |||
dead ones. Of the difference in point of value between <gap/> living and healthy <gap/> men on<lb/> | |||
the one hand, and dead <gap/> or (what is worse) helpless on the other, great <gap/> men in<lb/> | |||
general, and military men in particular, are but too apt<lb/> | |||
not to be <gap/><gap/>altogether so acutely or constantly sensible as could be wished</p> | |||
<p>If I did not misunderstand Echeverria, <gap/> Bogota, before the late<lb/> | |||
contest, contained a Botanic Garden, but, <gap/> in the course<lb/> | |||
of the contest it was unhappily demolished. The reestablishment<lb/> | |||
of it — is it not among the exploits that call upon<lb/> | |||
you for the performance? With us not in the first place<lb/> | |||
the establishment, and at all times the maintenance, of a<lb/> | |||
Botanic Garden is an affair of considerable expence: <gap/><lb/> | |||
here I mean, where not men only, but plants of a certain class must<lb/> | |||
have houses to live in and <gap/> great coats as with <gap/> fires<lb/> | |||
to keep them warm. N.B. it is by steam this will be<lb/> | |||
done in future. I have seen it this means employed in the Kings Hot-houses & more places<lb/> | |||
there are: it succeeds to perfection. But, with your plants<lb/> | |||
need no such things. You have in perfection <gap/> whatsoever<lb/> | |||
is most beautiful in that way, and most delicious, in all climates</p> | |||
<p>At different times I have heard much of a sort of root,<lb/> | |||
of which I can not at present recollect the name, as being cultivated<lb/> | |||
at Bogota and elsewhere in Columbia: aranca or araucana<lb/> | |||
or something between both: a tuberous root in form that [+]<lb/> | |||
<note>[+]1 that of the conical<lb/> | |||
form of a carrot or<lb/> | |||
parsnip reversed (if<lb/> | |||
true a very strange one:)</note><lb/> | |||
<gap/>: vying with the potatoe in productiveness and <gap/>surpassing<lb/> | |||
it in sweetness. Perhaps <gap/> the account is wholly fabulous or it was <gap/><lb/> | |||
<note>exaggerated. Not long ago a false report of this sort <gap/><gap/> <gap/> in the Monthly Magazine (a foolishly mischievous joke for the punishment of benevolence) cost me and some friends of mine I know not how many days labour<lb/> | |||
in working in different parts of the kingdom before the falshood was discovered. IF that <gap/> happens — potatoes <gap/> not fabulous send me a stacks seeds and too sample</note><lb/> | |||
<note>and gratify security roots besides, together with the botanical characters. We will<lb/> | |||
denominate it Foleyii and your name shall live as long as Botany lives.[+]</note></p> | |||
<p><note>[+] Yours gratefully<lb/> | |||
but eventually<lb/> | |||
Jeremy Bentham.</note></p> | |||
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1822 June 5
J.B. to Dr Foley (attached to Liberator Bolivar)
Should the inexpressibly useful and truly supremely glorious
the Junction be endeavoured to be realized, fail not to remember
how irresistible the claim is which it has upon you for
your care. Embrace the most favorable monument
for the endeavour to representing to the for impressing the our
Liberator with the persuasion which it
this namely that, within a given space of time a hundred
living workmen will do more work than a hundred thousand
dead ones. Of the difference in point of value between living and healthy men on
the one hand, and dead or (what is worse) helpless on the other, great men in
general, and military men in particular, are but too apt
not to be altogether so acutely or constantly sensible as could be wished
If I did not misunderstand Echeverria, Bogota, before the late
contest, contained a Botanic Garden, but, in the course
of the contest it was unhappily demolished. The reestablishment
of it — is it not among the exploits that call upon
you for the performance? With us not in the first place
the establishment, and at all times the maintenance, of a
Botanic Garden is an affair of considerable expence:
here I mean, where not men only, but plants of a certain class must
have houses to live in and great coats as with fires
to keep them warm. N.B. it is by steam this will be
done in future. I have seen it this means employed in the Kings Hot-houses & more places
there are: it succeeds to perfection. But, with your plants
need no such things. You have in perfection whatsoever
is most beautiful in that way, and most delicious, in all climates
At different times I have heard much of a sort of root,
of which I can not at present recollect the name, as being cultivated
at Bogota and elsewhere in Columbia: aranca or araucana
or something between both: a tuberous root in form that [+]
[+]1 that of the conical
form of a carrot or
parsnip reversed (if
true a very strange one:)
: vying with the potatoe in productiveness and surpassing
it in sweetness. Perhaps the account is wholly fabulous or it was
exaggerated. Not long ago a false report of this sort in the Monthly Magazine (a foolishly mischievous joke for the punishment of benevolence) cost me and some friends of mine I know not how many days labour
in working in different parts of the kingdom before the falshood was discovered. IF that happens — potatoes not fabulous send me a stacks seeds and too sample
and gratify security roots besides, together with the botanical characters. We will
denominate it Foleyii and your name shall live as long as Botany lives.[+]
[+] Yours gratefully
but eventually
Jeremy Bentham.
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