28. March 1804

Evidence

Forthcomingness

Ch. Means

§.3 Remuneratory

§.3. Remuneratory applications.

For the discovery of sources of evidence, an application of the matter of reward will in many /various/ cases be necessary. Why? because without such application evidence will not be at all obtainable. A mass of inviting motives will not exist capable of countervailing and surmounting the force of the restraining motives.

Meantime The use of it is subject to a variety of disadvantages; viz: when compared with simple invitations in one hand, and compulsory applications on the other.

1. Taken by itself its efficacy is precarious. The individuals capable of earning the ward being unknown, it can not be adjusted to their respective /the standard/ circumstances. And were they all known, reward has no such mastery over the will as punishment has.

This inefficiency in the matter of reward is supplied more or less by combination /admixture//its being combined/ with a competent allotment of the matter of punishment

2. It is essentially attended with expense: the efficacy of it or rather chance for efficacy is in general only in proportion to the expense. Compulsory application /Compulsion/ - punishment is indeed also connected though in another shape with expense. But besides the difference in quality between the expense of reward and the expense of punishment, there is this difference in point of certainty. The event in which the expense of reward is incurred - is that of success viz: the success of the other made by of /by/ it: success which is set over the most probable result and the most desirable. The event in which the expense of punishment is incurred, is only that of non-success: nor even then does it come to be sustained of course: nor is it ever inflicted but where in the judgment of those on whom it depends, it is become necessary to inflict it. In that state of things which is at once most natural and most desirable, no expense at all is incurred on this score.