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to the point in question in reasonable time — You will naturally observe, for instance,
that a saving of materials must of course include in it in some degree a
saving of workmanship; viz: of that which is bestowed in bringing the materials from
that state in which they are part of or supported by the original soil (old Dame
Tellus the universal mother) to that in which they are to be consumed.

Now then as to the Workmen; however it may be with an individual who may
be expected to regard himself in the 1st place; to the State, which ought to regard
every one of its members (or if you please, the Government which ought to regard every
one of it's subjects) with an equal eye, it ought ever, I think, to be a condition sine
qua non of it's acceptance of such a project to secure a subsistence to all such
persons as being thrown entirely out of employment, would otherwise be deprived of it:
for it can hardly be, that the accession of happiness, comfort &c (call it what you
will) to those whose benefit the saving accrues, can compensate the sum of the
distress experienced by a number of workmen in such a situation: & if the expence
of this be objected, it may be answer'd, that if the saving which is perpetual
will not answer this expence which is but temporary, to the Government
which is not limited as a private person is in its ability to make advances, it is
not worth attending to, nor the plan itself, whatever it be, worth adopting. You will
further observe that though the saving itself is perpetual, the accession of happiness which
it produces can hardly be reckoned other than temporary: for, in a little time,
that burthen, whatever it be, from which men were relieved by the saving, is
forgotten, & they relapse into the same state of mind in that respect as they were
in before.

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Date_1	1773-11-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings
Folio number	264	Info in main headings field
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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