036_161V.xml

Title: [[036-161v] 1821 May 18 Codification]

Description: [036-161v]

1821 May 18

Codification Offer

'.4. Draughtsman single

In this case, in so far as, in the eyes of a personage of such transcendent dignity, it may have been worth his while to bestow any attention on such a subject, it is by his individual interest as pointed out by his appetites and passions it is by that his sinister interest as in the case of any powerless individual it would be denominated, together with as many other particular and sinister interests as it may please him to admitt into a participation of the benefit by such his interests in conjunction with his prejudices and including those other interests, prejudices and weaknesses just spoken of that the substance of the several arrangements will of course be determined.

To this cluster of sinister interest, prejudices and weaknesses, will the greatest happiness of the greatest number, in so far as any competition has, or is supposed to have place, be of course mad a continual sacrifice: the only points in respect of which no such sacrifice, if any, which by the draughtsmen have been proposed to be made of the sinister interest of his employer to the greatest happiness of the greatest number have escaped his view.

As to the workman added by him to the sacrifices made of the universal interest, as above to the will, anticipated or declared, and thence to the sinister interests, prejudices and weaknesses, of his imperial or royal master, will of course be as many more as he can contrive to steal in, at the suggestion of his own sinister interests, prejudices and weaknesses, for his own benefit and accommodation, together with that of nay such individuals connected with him in the way of self-regarding interest or sympathy, as, on this occasion it may please him to take under his wing: more particularly all such as, in any apparently safe shape may to the disposition add the means, of making adequate demonstration of their gratitude.

JB_024_468v.xml

Title: [1821 Novr 28 Codification Offer '.8. Foreigner]

Description: 1821 Novr 28 Codification Offer '.8. Foreigner best Right and proper interest

a foreigner is susceptible of

 March 3. 1822. Not material this and the next page. No matter what the state

of interests is in the foreigner's case. Admission being universal each draught

will be judged by itself

To /For/ the claim /title/ of the foreigner the mere absence of sinister

interest affection and prejudice would not suffice to secure a ground of

preference, unless there were /if some/ interest favorable to that of the

greatest number of /in/ the community in question could not be shewn to be by

the very nature of the case implanted in his breast. To compleat his title to

preference, in his breast planted there by the nature of the case must be an

interest identified /identical/ with that of the greatest number in the

community in question, and not over powered by any stronger body of opposite

interests. But neither in the nature of the case can this indispensable interest

be in his instance wanting. In his situation /instance/ the /all/ possibility of

giving effect to any sinister interests affections or prejudices is excluded;

the instrument by which it is excluded, is in conjunction with the rationale

which by the supposition must be found by him that rationale in which the very

author of it be he who he may will find a most efficient bridle - the

consummative function which by the supposition is in the hand of a body of

natives, a select body of the ruling few chosen by the subject many whose lot is

placed in their hands. It is not therefore by any such desire because it is not

by any sensible prospect /hope/ as that of succeeding in the endeavour to serve

himself at the expence /charge/ of the community in question /as the doing of

mischief desire of serving himself at the expence of the community in question/

that he can be actuated. engaged in /determined to devote himself if permitted/

the task in question. But by the supposition he is so /thus/ determined:

conclusion is an uncontrovertible one: it must be by the desire of serving

himself by means of service done by him to /serving/ that same community. And

this desire whatsoever it be, can not in point of intensity be an inconsiderable

one. It will be correspondent and proportioned to the magnitude of the labour

necessary to the rendering of this same service: and as this magnitude, it can

scarcely fail to be sufficiently visible to all eyes.

JB_024_451v.xml

Title: [1821 Nov. 11 Codification Offer '.8. Foreigner]

Description: 1821 Nov. 11 Codification Offer '.8. Foreigner best '.2. II. Intellectual

aptitude I. Judgment

II. Next as to appropriate intellectual aptitude. On the present occasion this

element of appropriate aptitude will require to be further decomposed:

decomposed into appropriate judgment and appropriate knowledge.

1. In regard to appropriate judgment, on the occasion of the question as between

a single hand and divers hands, mention came to be made of the erroneous tracks

into which the pen of every such Draughtsman stands exposed to be led by

prejudice in different shapes: thence probability of correspondent aberration on

the part of the work from the all-comprehensive end so often mentioned. These

prejudices will to a large extent be of a local nature: peculiar in degree of

strength at least if not in kind to the country in question. From the influence

of these causes of error, while the native labours under it, the foreigner

stands free.

The foreigner will have his prejudices to contend against, and in particular his

local prejudices. But here, as in the case of interests and affections, while

those of the natives will find support in the prejudices of all around him, for

those of the foreigner not only will there be no such support but there will be

opposition, by the supposition from reasons, and moreover from counter

prejudices.