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<head>19 Aug. 1802<lb/> Lett<hi rend='superscript'>r</hi> 3<hi rend='superscript'>d</hi>N. S. Wales <lb/>(4 </head> | <head>19 Aug. 1802<lb/> Lett<hi rend='superscript'>r</hi> 3<hi rend='superscript'>d</hi>N. S. Wales <lb/>(4 </head> | ||
<p><add><gap/></add> Labour is the natural and <add>in general</add> unless by accident the only <lb/>beneficial or even innocent <del>means of</del> <add>medium</add> through which the <lb/>instruments of enjoyment can be acquired. The appetite <lb/>for them bring <add>would up to</add> at a certain pitch of intensity <del><gap/></del> <add>whatever can</add> [that <lb/>disposition which] prevents <del>the</del> <add>a man's</add> existence from running in the <lb/>lawful channel drives them by a necessary consequence <lb/>into the <add>an</add> unlawful one. Hence it is, that the very same<lb/> degree of sloth, <add>aversion to labour</add> which on the part of a man possessed of <lb/><del>property inefficient</del> incurs sufficient <add>commensurate<add>adequate</add></add> to his wants, <del>can</del> <add>amounts not<add>can not justly</add></add> is not<lb/> so much <add>even be<add>be accounted</add></add> as a vice because, on the on the part of another man, <add>in</add> whose<lb/> means are deficient, <add>there is a deficiency</add> a perpetual <add>an inexhaustible</add> source of <add>the most pernicious</add> <gap/>. </p> | |||
19 Aug. 1802
Lettr 3dN. S. Wales
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Labour is the natural and in general unless by accident the only
beneficial or even innocent means of medium through which the
instruments of enjoyment can be acquired. The appetite
for them bring would up to at a certain pitch of intensity whatever can [that
disposition which] prevents the a man's existence from running in the
lawful channel drives them by a necessary consequence
into the an unlawful one. Hence it is, that the very same
degree of sloth, aversion to labour which on the part of a man possessed of
property inefficient incurs sufficient commensurate<add>adequate</add> to his wants, can amounts not<add>can not justly</add> is not
so much even be<add>be accounted</add> as a vice because, on the on the part of another man, in whose
means are deficient, there is a deficiency a perpetual an inexhaustible source of the most pernicious .
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