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Mr. Bentham’s Plan for preventing Forgery of Paper Money.

§.3. Sequel – Application of the above principles to the Particular Expedients

above indicated. –

[marginal heading:] 1.

1. Multiplication of the distinct Arts made requisite

1. First in regard to the multiplicity of distinct arts, the concurrence of which

has been rendered necessary, to the production of the genuine instrument, and

thence of the forbidden spurious one.

[marginal heading:] Applications of this principle. –

By distinct arts I understand, for the present purpose, such arts as in the

course of professional usage are not commonly exercised by one and the same

person: and the distinction will be the more entire, and in the proposed point

of view the more effective, the less the facility with which the exercise of

such art affords to the exercise of any the rest; and thence the more difficult

it will be for them to be exercised, all or several of them by one and the same

hand, to a degree of perfection adequate to the forbidden purpose.

The force of the obstruction thus produced, will not be materially different in

point of efficacy, whether it be the case of a confederacy, or whether the

enterprize be to be carried on by a single hand: in the case of a confederacy,

the obstruction results from the danger of detection by indiscretion, or

disagreement, as between confederate and confederate: a danger which increases,

of course, along with the multitude of the confederates: in the case of a single

hand, it results from the improbability that so many distinct branches of skill

shall be united in one and the same hand.

[marginal heading:] 2.

Distinct arts requisite – I. on the existing plan.

In the framing of a Bank Note upon the present plan, the number of concurrent

arts that may thus be stated as distinct ones, is but two, or at most but three:

viz. 1. The art of the Paper-maker 2d. The art of the Engraver of writing on

Copper Plate (to whom, were it only for

the