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1821 Nov. 10th
As, by the supposition, the sort of work in question is no other than an original draught, subject to rejection and to unlimited alteration at the hands of the Legislation, there is nothing either incongruant or improbable in the supposition that instead of a Committee of the Legislation body, the appointment may be in the hands of a Member or certain Member of the Executive department.
A course the presents itself in the next place, is to attach to this service remuneration in a pecuniary [unreadable] to a determinate and hence limited number of individuals, to be chosen in the way of election by the whole of the legislative body: namely, either before the service rendered, and hence in expectation of the receipt of it, or not till afther the service rendered, and hence in recompense for it.
Still, lodge it where you willn lodge it in one these quarters or in another - lodge it in any other - patronage is in the unalterable nature of things a souce and instrument of corruptive influence. No correction is it susceptible of other than that wich has place in so far as the functionaries, in whose hands it is lodged, are removable by the secretly given suffrages of the people: and in uts application to their case in articular, the remedy would have left virtue - less efficiency - than in any other. The degree [amount] of their relative and compoarative incapacity, whold be as the magnitude of this all-comprehensive whole, compared with the magnitude of this or that particular part, of the aptitude of which they are best qualified to judge.
III. The work suppressed, retarded, or by over hast deteriorated. Now comes in the circumstance of time. Where factitious reward is the moving power, in the chart of time two opposite rocks - precipitation and delay - may be seen opposing themselves: opposing themselves in such sort, that to prevent the work from making [ship???] on the one or the other, no inconsiderable portion of care and skill will be necessary: more than any which has been usually exeplified or appears probable. In one case, the work will be produced, but in such sort as not to be fit for use: in the other case, it may appen to it not to be produced at all. Take in
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jeremy bentham; richard doane |
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letter 2891, vol. 11 |
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