1821 May 13 Codification Offer '.5. Singleness known

In proportion as public opinion appears to have marked any portion of the work

with its disapprobation, the course taken will be shift off the blame as

effectually as possible upon the invisible shoulders of the imaginary colleague.

As the interest of the greatest number requires in point /respect/ of ultimate

good, that in the breast of him on whose handywork every thing that is and every

thing that ought to be most dear to them may in some measure depend the sense of

his dependence on their good opinion should be as acute as possible, so in

respect of present satisfaction is it their interest to be assured that this

best /most effectual of all visible securities/ or rather only visible security

for his due attention to their interest is not wanting.

As in point of ultimate and effective security it is material to the greatest

happiness of the greatest number, that, in the breast of him, on whose

handy-work its dependence is so strict and so extensive, his sensibility to the

good or bad opinion of the greatest number be as intense as possible, so in

respect of present satisfaction, is, in their minds, the existence of the

persuasion, that this best, or rather only visible, security, for his due

attention to their interest, is not deficient or inadequate: and to this

persuasion it is necessary, not only that he actually have not, but that he be

not believed to have, any one else to share with him in whatever honour or

dishonour may come to be reflected upon him by his work. End of the Section.