036_201V.xml

Title: [[036-201v] 1821. May 12. Codification]

Description: [036-201v]

1821. May 12.

Codification Offer

'.10 Offer /Draughtsman Gratuitous/

Reward refused why

subjected to a proportionable diminution. Suppose the shape of it that of an annuity or fixed salary, to continue during the time the workman was occupied in the work, the reward would, in this case also, be a bounty upon delay: and in this case likewise, interest set in opposition to duty

True it is that if reward in any such shape were necessary to the obtainment of the service, this being supposed, by a sort of mixture of the present with the future - of antecedent or concomitant reward with future contingent and subsequent - by a mixture of this sort, if made in apt proportions, the objections abovementioned might, in good measure, if not altogether, be removed.

But even suppose this effected, the consideration of the situation of the hand or hands from which alone, in any case, the reward would be to be received, presents another circumstance, that would be in a state of incurable /irremediable/ opposition to the goodness of the work itself: of the work itself, or, at any rate, to the ultimate receipt of the service intended by the execution of it.

1. In any representative democracy, as yet in existence, scarcely would the operative rulers think of accepting, at the hands of any individual with the intention of taking it into consideration, any such work: not even if proffered ready made; much less of giving, or offering, any reward for the setting about and framing any such work.

2. In a Monarchy, absolute or limited, by the Monarch no work, on the subject in question, directed to the end in question could consistently with the unchangeable nature of man, unless in the extraordinary case of a desire to abdicate, be wishes for: wished for, either by the Monarch, or by any other individual, acting in conformity to his wishes: for no work, directed to any other end, than that of the sacrifice of the greatest happiness of the greatest number, without any sensible sacrifice of the particular interest of that one, could acceptance, and thereby usefulness, be reasonably expected. Here, then, would be a temptation, by which the workman would be continually excited, either to take for the entire purpose of his labours, an improper purpose, or, in this or that matter of detail, on this or that particular occasion, to be continually turning aside from the only proper, to this or that particular improper, purpose. Let the temptation even experience a resistance ever so compleat and effectual, still the fact of its effectiveness could not, in the nature of the case, be universally or generally matter of notoriety. By the suspicions which, in this state of things, it would be impossible altogether to wipe away, even if acceptance were not prevented, that esteem, on which the goodness of the service done by the production of the work so materially depends, would unavoidably be lessened.

114-028v.xml

Title: [[114-028v] 1821 May 11 Codification]

Description: [114-028v]

1821 May 11

Codification Offer

'. Draughtsman gratuitous /'.10. Offer/

By the above considerations alone - all of them deduced from the observation of the influence of the reward in question on the goodness of the service it is employed for the extraction of - by the above sober considerations alone, and not by any unreflecting sentimentalism has the veto thus put upon reward been produced. To the value of money the author is no less sensible, than those are who for the procurement of it are so ready to consign men by thousands to speedy death by fire and sword, and to lingering death by famine. With unfeigned gratitude he would accordingly, supposing the work compleated, accept from willing donors individually and separately, contributing, money from each to any amount from the lowest denomination of coin to the greatest sum which any individual could take pleasure in thus disposing of. Not a ribbon of the number of those which are worn about men's shoulders - not a ribbon of that sort, of any colour, from any hand, would he refuse bowing for it being previously understood, that in his opinion the greatest happiness of the greatest number would be much the more effectually promoted were all such ribbons dragged through the kennel in the lump and then burnt by the hands of the common hangman, than by being bestowed in requital of the most meritorious service for which reward in this shape was ever granted. Only in so far as those, at whose instance it would have been bestowed would be otherwise than desirous to see it thus bestowed, does aversion to reward in any shape maintain a place in his mind.

036_194V.xml

Title: [[036-194v] 1821 Nov. 23 Codification]

Description: [036-194v]

1821 Nov. 23

Codification Proposal

Abridgm t

'.9. Draughtsman gratuitous

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 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. Before me