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1821 Novr 28 '.8. Foreigner best
1821 Novr 28

'.8. Foreigner best

Another circumstance that pleads in favour of the foreigner, is - that which in

respect /the article/ of moral aptitude in respect of sinister interests and

affections, and in the article of intellectual aptitude in respect of prejudices

the inaptitude of the native in comparison of the foreigner, with reference to

the original draught stands demonstrated, such is the nature of the service,

that when separated from that which consists in the revisal and confirmation of

the original draught, it affords room for the application of such a test of

appropriate aptitude as is in a rare and remarkable degree conclusive. On this

occasion let it never be out of mind that when a circumstance is said to plead

in favour of a foreigner it is only for shortness that this mode of speaking is

employed: instead of saying that this is of the number of those circumstances

which concurr in shewing for the service /a case/ in question it is in a higher

degree contributory to the greatest happiness of the greatest number that it

should be rendered by a foreigner than that it should be rendered by a native.

It is not for the benefit of foreigners that he /his service/ is thus pointed

out for acceptance, it is for that of the community in question and that

alone
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