[036-088v]

1821. Nov r. 28.

Codification Proposal

'.9. Draughtsman Gratuitous.

I. On the part of the workmen, 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 shown in Section the fifth. The dependent or protigo (for in English though we have the thing, we have not the name) will be under the dominion of these 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 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, or as having rendered it, if it be after the work is done - but to the individual, whom, whether on his the patron's own account, or on the account of some connection of his, it will be most agreeable to him to see thus served.

III. On the part of the work, on the one hand comparative inaptitude through precipitation, or on the other hand needless and useless delay up to final non-execution, according to the mode in which the pay is connected with the looked-for service.

Apply the pay in one way, the work suffers for want of time to do it well in: apply the pay in another way, the work lingers, and for a time more or less considerable, the benefit of it is lost: apply it again in another way, the pay is continually received, and the work never executed.

1. The work suffers for want of time to execute it in - if, a time being fixed, after which no draught shall be received, the interval allowed is not sufficient for giving to the work that

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