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1821 Dec r 24

Codification Proposal

'.5. Draughtsman single /Admission Universal/

 29 Dec r 1821. Rewrite this text for the head of universal admiss n

First, as to universal admissibility.

To shew /For shewing/ the grounds of the conclusion formed /thus expressed/ in relation to this head, the following positions or observations require to be brought to view.

1. In a draught for this purpose, taking each part by itself, aptitude on the part of the work will be greater, if there be but one hand, than if divers hands be employed in it

2. By the draughtsmans situation with reference to /in respect of/ political power the influence of all the several causes of inaptitude on the part of the workman and the work will be modified.

3. To each such situation belongs a cause of inaptitude in the shape particular and sinister interest, strengthened by interest-begotten and other prejudices

4. In each such situation the influence of such sinister interest and prejudices receives encrease proportioned from the number of the hands: encrease originating in proportion to the number of the hands

5. As between part and part, regard for consistency of design and execution requires that the parts of this great body all of them if possible be the work of one and sand hand.