incidental to the works in progress. For each of which sums of
L100 it is intended and agreed that twelve months after the 1st
February next, the several parties subscribing shall receive as
an equivalent for the risk to be run the sum of L300 for each of
the sums of L100 now subscribed, provided when the time arrives
the Patents shall be found to answer the purposes intended.

As full and complete success is alone looked to, no moderate or
imperfect benefit is to be anticipated, but the work, if it once
passes the necessary ordeal, to which inventions of every kind
must be first subject, will then be regarded by every one as the
most astonishing discovery of modern times; no half success can
follow, and therefore the full nature of the risk is immediately
ascertained.

The intention is to work and prove the Patent by collective
instead of individual aid as less hazardous at first end more
advantageous in the result for the Inventor, as well as others,
by having the interest of several engaged in aiding one common
object--the development of a Great Plan. The failure is not
feared, yet as perfect success might, by possibility, not ensue,
it is necessary to provide for that result, and the parties
concerned make it a condition that no return of the subscribed
money shall be required, if the Patents shall by any unforeseen
circumstances not be capable of being worked at all; against
which, the first application of the money subscribed, that of
securing the Patents, affords a reasonable security, as no one
without solid grounds would think of such an expenditure.

It is perfectly needless to state that no risk or responsibility