1821 June 18

Codification Offer

'.9. Draughtsman gratuitous

Give pay you may have workmen in any numbers who are averse to the work. /to whom

the work is more or less unpleasant./ Refuse all pay, you can have no workmen

who are not enamoured of the work: and forasmuch as public esteem and admiration

can not fail to attach itself upon every candidate, in proportion to the place

/allotted height of the level/ which by /according to/ the judgment of the

public eye is occupied by his work in the scale of aptitude by his work upon the

whole, the nature of the work considered the probability seems to be that on

these terms apt workmen more in number, and on the part f the most apt a work

possessing higher aptitude would be obtained than by factitious remuneration in

any shape and quantity in which it could be applied /the longer and more

laborious the undertaking is, the higher the degree of relish proved by it.

On these terms would candidates be wanting? Never fear it./

As on /in/ every other subject /cause/ so on this, the tribunal of public opinion

would not be corrupted: as in every other case where the judges are not

removable by the tribunal of public opinion, be the judges who they may, their

judgment is almost sure to be corrupted.

None it is true but them who could afford to work for nothing would attach

themselves to this work. But in every country more there are who to a competence

/aptitude/ in this respect, acquired or acquirable, add the capacity of working

for nothing: in England in particular they are innumerable /exist in multitude/

Even in /under/ the existing order of things were an invitation to this effect

given given by the existing rulers not only works of this sort would be obtained

in multitudes but among them even those on the good side having for their object

in view as well real as professed the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

What? and under any such expectation as that a work having that or any thing

appertaining to it for its object would be carried into effect? No most

assuredly: the very supposition is scarce endurable But this being the good and

honest side, this is the side on which talent may most advantageously be

displayed The value of the man in the scale of aptitude would stand manifested,

and suppose him able to open his mouth in Parliament with tolerable effect - to

have the gift of tongues in the parliamentary sense and the price he would fetch

in the market would be proportionable.