Excerpt from Official Aptitude Maximized; Expense Minimized: As Shewn in the Several Papers Comprised in This Volume Of this work, a main occupation was, of course, the shewing by what means the several members of the official establishment - in other words, the public functionaries, of the aggregate body of whom, what is called the Government is composed - might be rendered, in the highest degree well qualified, for rendering to the whole community the several services which are or ought to be looked for at their hands: or say, for giving fulfilment to that, which is or ought to be the end of their institution: - namely, the maximization of the happiness of the whole community under consideration. In any one of these forms of words, may be seen expressed the whole of the benefit in view. But, in the very nature of the case, connected with this benefit, is a burthen, without which the attainment of this same benefit is, in all places, and at all times, utterly...