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10 Jan. y 1817

Necessity Cat

1 Theory

§.2. Elements of Aptitude

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§.2. Elements of Aptitude

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Quest. 12. For the elements of aptitude a test of aptitude for the forms of Government?

Ans: Yes: one test

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Q:13: Does the nature of the case afford any other? -

Ans: Yes: a practical; that but a theoretical one -

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Q:141. A theoretical, what?

Ans: Test derived from observation by the acts of all men in private as well as public life: such the will by which probity & or the opposites are exhibited.

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Q:15 2. Practical what? -

Ans: List of grievances under the several governments: add 3. Applicable /tion/ of theoretical list to practical shewing < > by what deficiencies in this claims what grievances have been produced -

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Q 16: Grievances alone. Evil, all noted in the account? - Good not in any shape?

§.2. Elements of aptitude.

Ans: For judgment of approbation or disapprobation, yes: But for conception & arrangement < > cause in to place all to the < > of evil: of god that might have been produced non production is evil: these are grievances: End being maximization of happiness, suppose that by deficiency in any of the elements producible good is not produced, non-productive of good will be belong to the account of grievance.

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Q:17: Property is it not commonly spoken of as one of these elements? and thus otherwise giving title to a share in government? -

Ans: Title not good if the above are all and thus not included in any -

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Q 18: Property then has it any thing to do with efficial aptitude? -

Ans: supposing all these to exist, property or property matter of indifference -

But to each of these some portion of property either present or past can not but be necessary or conducive -

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It being < > by experience that intellectual aptitude and active talent may exist in the highest degree without any personal property, only in the character of a security for probity is it that personal property is so much insisted upon -

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Q:19 Not being this itself an element how causes it in the last?

A: Suppose a man destitute of all, and conscious of being so, or thought to be so yet ambitious of power and possessed of property natural that he should < > the importance of this endowment Principally to the representative part of the British Government does the importance attached to it applies: of this by and by -