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1794 Sept. 26
To Dundas
To Dundas
As to the imputation of want of temper (and
dispositions in that respect I presume) how well
soever merited by the author I hope it will not
be the means of the plan's being deprived of the
benefit of your patronage. It is for the place of
Jailor for he that I am a candidate, and not
the place of a professor of urbanity or even of
good manners. Good Temper is most certainly an essential
quality of a jailor - but towards whom?
Towards those that are under him not towards those
that are above him. Was I ever deficient in this
respect towards persons of that description bearing
any such a relation to me? - that will submission
would be the proper is the object for your inquiry - No
servant no dependent of any kind ever heard a harsh
word from me. Send your servants
Sir, to ask my servants
inquire of
mine.
Do not You will do me an injustice
if you believe that I would ever make so free with a
person standing in such a rela situation with respect
to me as you see I have I would do, as I have
done, Sir, with you — Why? - for this simple
reason that addressed to such a persons any thing of asperity
harshness would fall heavy on him: addressed to you, it
would fall heavy only on myself.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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