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1822 March 14
Rid yourselves of your Ultramaria
On this occasion, as on others so many others,
Oftener, much oftener than I could have wished, have
I found myself under the necessity of endeavouring to hold
up to your view which in my eyes has on the imperfections
in your Constitutional Code. Be not angry
with me, my friends: or, if you must be angry with
me, think at the same time for whose ruler it is that
I have thus exposed myself to your displeasure.
He who is angry with me, if he has a who has it has ever happened to have to
have received a wound : let him include in his anger the
Surgeon by whom the he probe, and the knife
or the needle have been applied to it. "The Constitution". The whole
"Constitution" – nothing but the Constitution. Ah my friend
let me look embrace this opportunity occasion, to warn you against
this cry. Joined in, I make no doubt my many by many a<head>
who to you it is whose good are all of care is for all of you, and I observed observe it set up, with much more
advantage, by others who wish ill to you – oppose whose good wishes are care to be confined to themselves
for example the arrangements and the Endorse, at least for arguments sake – and are the⊞ ⊞ supposition, unwelcome
as it may be, that in this
instrument of preponderant good
favourable beneficial to the interests
of the ruling few but
in a state greater
arrangements of the
opposite character are
not altogether wanting:
arrangements by which
a sacrifice is made
of the universal interest
to this or that particular
and sinister interest:
a sacrifice so manifest
that, for the defence of
it, nothing that will
bear looking at can be
found. Now then – this
chorus, in which all
perfection and immutability
are ascribed to the
hasty work of one knows
not what, or how many,
inexperienced men – suppose it
set up and joined in by
such vipers in multi such multitude
that no other dares
refuse to join it it. Suppose this, what is the consequence? – that all sinister interests find every thing in it– all such as find favour in it – find in it that support which otherwise but for it, they could
not find anywhere:
be greatest happiness of the greatest number are not altogether
wanting to it: points so plainly incontrovertibly adverse
that nothing that will bear looking at will be found to be said place defence.
It is for this very reason. Were it not for the those
sinister interests would remain defenceless: join with
them in the way you sacrifice you
sacrifice – , you sacrifice the only
right and proper interests, the interests of the greatest number
to their and sinister interests. No, my
good friends: if, for a bond of union – you for a source of of sound
you must have a convivial aphorism, if
you must have what we in England call a toast
let discrimination, not blind and self-distructive enthusiasm
be the character of it. thereby to what Perpetuity to whatever is good
in the Constitutional amendment to what whatever is bad in it.
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jeremy bentham |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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