10 May 1805

Evidence

Introd

Ch.5. Collateral Incidental

'.6. Expence.

Of the connection between vexation and expence, of the tendency which the former one has to change its seal[?] and transform itself into the other, mention has already /just/ been made. Of the impossibility of any exact /exactness of/ equipoise between the burthen and the compensation, and of the increase naturally /thence/ given to the burthen for the sake of /purpose of/ giving a correspondent but always preponderant /more than equivalent/ increase to the compensation, mention has also been made. In a practical view this theoretical connection - this [...?] connection is of /will be found to possess/ no small importance. In it we shall find the seed /germ/ of all that mass /torrent[?]/ of factitious evil with which the actual system /established Systems/ of procedure have almost every where been infected /drenched/ and overwhelmed.

In this unhappy connection we shall find the differential character /characters/ of two opposite systems of procedure: one, the end and object /object and tendency/ of which is to reduce to their minimum these collateral evils as well as the direct evils of procedure, the other in which from /in/ the proportionable profit extractible from the other branches of the mass of collateral evil, not only that part /branch/ of the aggregate mass of evil has been carried to its maximum but amount of the direct branch has been augmented in a variety of ways.