1821 Novr 23 Codification Proposal Abridgment '.9. Draughtsman Gratuitous

I. On the part of the workman, inaptitude in the shape in which it stands

opposed to appropriate moral aptitude.

1. Be they who they may, the patron or patrons will be exposed to the influence,

not to say subject to the dominion, of sinister interests and prejudices. This

has been shewn in Section the fifth. The dependent or protegé (for in English

though we have the thing we have not the name) will be under the dominion of

those same interests and prejudices, and to these the draught will endeavour to

give effect, with the addition of any such of his own as he thinks he can

venture to steal in.

II. On the part of the workman, inaptitude not only in the above shape, but in

all shapes: in those in which it stands opposed to the two other elements of

appropriate aptitude, namely appropriate intellectual aptitude, and appropriate

active talent.

The pay is a determinate and tangible object: an object to the value of which

every eye is sensible: those of the patron or patrons, be they who they may,

among the rest. In comparison of this - in competition with this - the goodness

of the service, where it is in any degree an object will, generally speaking, be

at best but a secondary one. The appointment, or the vote towards the

appointment, will accordingly be given - not to the individual who is regarded

as being likely to render the best service, if it be before the work is done, as

having rendered it if it be after the work is done, - but to the individual,

whom, whether on his the patrons own account, or on the account of some

connection of his, it will be most agreable to him to see thus served.