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1821 Novr 28 Codification Offer '.8. Foreigner
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.
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