JB_113_074v.xml

Title: [1821. Aug. 18. Codification Offer]

Description: 1821. Aug. 18.

Codification Offer

'.6./'.8/ Singleness known.

'.8. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires, that the work, being

the work of a single hand, be known to be so.

Only in so far as the individual or individuals, actually engaged in the work in

question, are, by their respective names, known to be so, can public opinion

have any determinate object, on which to direct its force. Whether the hands

thus occupied are those of one man or those of divers men, it is therefore

essential that all that are thus employed, be known to be so.

For the same reason, it is in both cases essential, that no hand that is not so

employed, be supposed to be so. If, in addition to this or that hand actually

employed, a supposition has place, that some other has been thus employed,

either that supposition is true, or it is not: if true, then so it is, that

prevalent, that the avowed operator has a secret colleague acting in conjunction

with him, - here, though by the supposition he has no such secret support as is

supposed, still he has a sort of screen, though not so effectual an one as in

the other case.

In proportion as public opinion appears to have marked any portion of the work

with its disapprobation, the course taken will in this case be, to shift off the

blame as effectually as possible upon the invisible shoulders of the imaginary

colleague.

As, to the purpose of ultimate and effective security, it is material to the

greatest happiness of the greatest number that, in the breast of him, on whose

handy-work its dependence is so strict and so extensive, sensibility -

sensibility to the good or bad opinion of the greatest number, be as intense as

possible, - so, to the purpose of their present satisfaction, is it material,

that their minds be furnished with the persuasion, that this best, or rather

only visible, security, for his due attention to their interest, namely

undivided responsibility, is not either absent or incompleat: and to this

persuasion it is necessary, not only that he - the declared workman - actually

have not, but that he be not believed to have, any one else that works with him:

any one other, to share with him, in whatever honour or dishonour may come to be

reflected upon him by his work.

036_112V.xml

Title: [[036-112v] 1821 Dec r 22 Codification]

Description: [036-112v]

1821 Dec r 22

Codification Proposal

'.5. Draughtsman single /Admission Universal/

'. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires, that from every person without exception proposed original draughts be admitted. Plan for giving the utmost practicable encrease to the number of such rival draughts.

What is above has for its subject the characteristic nature and plan of the proposed work.

What follows has for its subject the choice of hands for the execution of it: always remembered that the work in question is - not a body of law in its ultimate shape - in that the state in which it received the sanction of law from sovereign authority of the community, but only the original draught, drawn up in the view of its eventually receiving the sanction of law as above, after undergoing any such alteration as by that same authority shall have been made in it. To give to any such draught the force of law is to exercise the highest imperative power in the state. By the mere preparing of any such draught for the choice of those to whom that power belongs, no power at all is exercised.

As to the choice of hands the result of the present enquiry, and is accordingly here maintained may be summarized in the first place by three short phrases

1. That this same original draught should be the work of some one hand, and not of any greater number of hands /1. Draughtsman single - his singleness and his personality that there is but one, and who that one is being known/ The reason is - /Cause or reason -/ that in the case where there is but one hand and that hand known the danger of inaptitude on the part of the work will be obviated by a security which in the case of divers hands does not operate, if at all, with such considerable force. This security is the tutelary /guardian/ power of the tribunal of public opinion.

2. For choice, [...?] rival works from as many hands as well each working singly. Cause or reason, taking the best chance for the best service

3. Remuneration, for this service alone, and at the public expence, none.

Cause or reason, on the part of the arbiter or arbiters the reward, by the opportunity afforded of serving self-regarding interest to gratifying private sympathy leads to diminution of the number of the competitors.

JB_024_440v.xml

Title: [1821 May 8th. Codification Offer '.6. Singleness]

Description: 1821 May 8th. Codification Offer '.6. Singleness known

'.VI. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that the work,

being the work of a single hand, be known to be so.

Only in so far as the individual or individuals actually engaged on the work in

question are, by their respective names, known to be so, can public opinion have

any determinate object on which to direct its force. Whether the hands thus

occupied are those of one man or those of divers men it is therefore essential

that all that are thus employed be known to be so.

For the same reason it is in both cases essential, that no hand that is not so

employed be supposed to be so. If, in addition to this or that hand actually

employed, a supposition has place, that some other has been thus employed,

either that supposition is true or it is not:if true, then so it is, that the

mischievous instrument stiled a Board, serving as a screen and as a supporting

framework, to each member, has place, as above ('.5): if, though untrue, a

supposition is more or less generally prevalent, that the avowed operator has a

secret colleague acting in conjunction with him, here, though by the supposition

he has no such secret support as is supposed, still he has a sort of screen,

though not so effectual as in the other case.