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I have just been doing a thing which Q. S. P. would
shirk the use of poor simple mortal that had no regard to his own
interest: others perhaps might think in an act of supreme magnanimity.
The truth is it is neither the one nor the other; but
an act done in perseverance of I hope not a dishonest regard to what
I take to be my own interest— In my last I told you about
friend Pilate. Scher. was to write to him this
evening. It came in my head this morning to write a note or
rather letter to Scher. pr recommending it to him to press Pilate
to write for the I had handed it to him last night To have such a concurrence
I said would be a matter of honour to me if I succeeded,
and of consolation if I failed. I urged all the arguments that
I could have urged if I had been ever indesirous of
his embracing the proposed: Indeed I putting him in of
the impress Volumes &c. and of the book that he has already written
in which he has exposed some of the defects of the established
systems of Criminal Law in a lovely & not injudicious manner—
that he would not be true to the subject; that it
was expected of him, and so forth: and what is more than
all this offering to exhibit to . all of my papers without
return that he might communicate out of there to Pilate
any thing which he should think might be of any use to him.
Now as the time is not very long, as he has countries to travel
over and Russian Bears to dandle through there, as he will
understand that I am pretty far advanced, and as I expect imagine will
be taught to look upon one as rather a formidable concurrent,
what I rather expect is that he will not embrace the proposal.
If so he will think it an act of great magnanimity, at least
I hope so, I will trumpet at about as such to his young
cubs and in Russia amongst of places; the rather as every
thing I hear of him induces me to a favorable opinion
of him. But even if he should, I am not at all afraid of him;
it
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neither I believe are you: for if my plan is not what I look upon
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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