JB_160_431V.xml

Title: [[160-431v] 1821. Nov r. 28.]

Description: [160-431v]

1821. Nov r. 28.

Codification Proposal

'.9. Draughtsman gratuitous

degree of aptitude which a greater length of time would have given to it: the ablest workman either shrinks from the work, or by haste is prevented from giving to it that degree of aptitude which, in a greater length of time, he would have given to it.

2. The work will be apt, not to say will be sure, to linger - if the reward, in the shape of pay and in all shapes taken together be so ordered, that the workman sees more profit for himself by delay than by dispatch.

3. The work will never be executed at all, if the connection between reward and service be so formed, that, on the completion of the work, the condition of the workman would, instead of being bettered, be, or be in danger of being, rendered worse.

An example of this last arrangement, and of the effect of it, may serve for the second likewise.

036_088v.xml

Title: [[036-088v] 1821. Nov r. 28.]

Description: [036-088v]

1821. Nov r. 28.

Codification Proposal

'.9. Draughtsman Gratuitous.

I. On the part of the workmen, inaptitude in the shape in which it stands opposed to appropriate moral aptitude.

1. Be they who they may, the patron or patrons will be exposed to the influence, not to say subject to the dominion, of sinister interests and prejudices. This has been shown in Section the fifth. The dependent or protigo (for in English though we have the thing, we have not the name) will be under the dominion of these same interests and prejudices, and to these the draught will endeavour to give effect, with the addition of any such of his own as he thinks he can venture to steal in.

II. On the part of the workman, inaptitude not only in the above shape, but in all shapes: in those in which it stands opposed to the two other elements of appropriate aptitude, namely appropriate intellectual aptitude and appropriate active talent.

The pay is a determinate and tangible object: an object to the value of which every eye is sensible: those of the patron or patrons, be they who they may, among the rest. In comparison of this - in competition with this - the goodness of the service, where it is in any degree an object, will generally speaking be at best a secondary one. The appointment, or the vote towards the appointment, will accordingly be given - not to the individual who is regarded as being likely to render the best service, if it be before the work is done, or as having rendered it, if it be after the work is done - but to the individual, whom, whether on his the patron's own account, or on the account of some connection of his, it will be most agreeable to him to see thus served.

III. On the part of the work, on the one hand comparative inaptitude through precipitation, or on the other hand needless and useless delay up to final non-execution, according to the mode in which the pay is connected with the looked-for service.

Apply the pay in one way, the work suffers for want of time to do it well in: apply the pay in another way, the work lingers, and for a time more or less considerable, the benefit of it is lost: apply it again in another way, the pay is continually received, and the work never executed.

1. The work suffers for want of time to execute it in - if, a time being fixed, after which no draught shall be received, the interval allowed is not sufficient for giving to the work that

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036_191V.xml

Title: [[036-191v] 1821 Aug. 19 Codification]

Description: [036-191v]

1821 Aug. 19

Codification Offer

Abridgm t

'.9. Draughtsman gratuitous /'.10. Legislation School/

/'.2. Advantages/

Be the sort of work what it may, the stronger a man's relish for it, other things being equal, the higher is the degree of aptitude he is likely to give to it: and without some degree of relish that any tolerable degree of aptitude should be given to any such work is next to impossible. The more persevering the course of labour necessary to the execution of the work, the more indispensable is this relish, /is the possession of the qualification thus denominated,/ in the character of a necessary condition to the aptitude of the work so executed. Suppose no reward attached in any factitious shape, the probability is - that the natural reward will be put in for by all by whom the relish is possessed and by none by whom it is not possessed: by all with the exception of those men who stand excluded by inability to find the means of subsistence during that time. Apply the factitious reward the probability is that it will be put in for by those and those only, who to a relish for the factitious reward - say in a word for money - add a hope sufficiently assured, of being taken for objects of preference, by those in whose hands the power of patronage is regarded as being lodged.