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[036-107v] 1822 Jan y 13 Codification
[036-107v]

1822 Jan y 13

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Thus stand displayed the causes by the joint application of which in the case of a work of the sort in question its probable degree of appropriate aptitude is diminished, in the case where the draughtsman by whom the initiative function performed by the drawing of it is either a sharer /either has himself a share/ in the correspondent consummative power, or as he can scarce fail to be is operated upon the influence of those by whom, on the occasion in question that power will have to be exercised

But, the greater the number of those at whose hands proposed original draughts for the purpose in question are invited, /invited, under the assurance of their being noticed/ the greater the number of those by whom the invitation will be more or less likely to be accepted the greater the number likely to be sent in: and the greater the number sent in, the greater the probability that among them will be some one in the instance of which the elements of appropriate aptitude exist in the largest proportion that the state of the human mind in the age /at the time/ in question admitts of.

While on one part /in one quarter/ depredation and oppression are pursuing their course on an all comprehensive scale, in the other quarter discontent, perhaps even insurrection will here and there make their appearance. /symptoms of dissatisfaction with here and there an act of violence become visible, and here and there resentment of the fond hope of remedy burst the trammels of restraint. In resentment for myriads of lives sacrificed in war, a single life a dozen lives a score of lives perhaps no more than a single life are destroyed /sacrificed/ without any such word for a pretence/ On each occasion on which any such symptoms make their appearance, instead of giving execution to the existing laws, laws more and more oppressive succeed each other on pretence of the insufficiency of all preceding ones

In return for [...? ...? ...? ....? ...? ...?] by thousands this or that single man is destroyed or pillaged. This is what was [...?]. instead of giving execution to existing laws on such occasion , laws more and more oppressive are added to all former ones; physical means of security left unemployed that a pretence may be left for the continually augmented train of verbal ones.
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