[036-191v]

1821 Aug. 19

Codification Offer

Abridgm t

'.9. Draughtsman gratuitous /'.10. Legislation School/

/'.2. Advantages/

Be the sort of work what it may, the stronger a man's relish for it, other things being equal, the higher is the degree of aptitude he is likely to give to it: and without some degree of relish that any tolerable degree of aptitude should be given to any such work is next to impossible. The more persevering the course of labour necessary to the execution of the work, the more indispensable is this relish, /is the possession of the qualification thus denominated,/ in the character of a necessary condition to the aptitude of the work so executed. Suppose no reward attached in any factitious shape, the probability is - that the natural reward will be put in for by all by whom the relish is possessed and by none by whom it is not possessed: by all with the exception of those men who stand excluded by inability to find the means of subsistence during that time. Apply the factitious reward the probability is that it will be put in for by those and those only, who to a relish for the factitious reward - say in a word for money - add a hope sufficiently assured, of being taken for objects of preference, by those in whose hands the power of patronage is regarded as being lodged.