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To Mora
Now if so it be, Sir, that on this question subject your opinion
coincide with mine, there is nothing not in what is above any
thing which I can see any objection to your saying. But
as to my standing up to maintain any such proposition,
observe the consequence. 'Oh (say the lawyers) and so 'this then
'is what you mean to do with our laws: to subvert the whole mass
of them all at once,' not to have leave one stain upon another!
Then comes and with redoubted form, the attack made by
our Serviles upon Parliamentary reform: wild, theoretical,
speculative and visionary: not to , anarchical,
atheistical and mischievous.
He ought to pay not to have regard to any thing he has established
this is what you may say of me, and no harm is done to me
that is to my wished for work. I will have no regard to any
thing that is done established – what I could not say could I say any thing to this effect without
the greatest injury to my danger to that same work? To all valuable possessions taken
together to give the maximum of some security would be this is what
from beginning to end would be my object: and it is precisely
because they in so great a degree fail of it doing this, that in one sense
I should pay no regard to the existing institutions. No regard
the term is quite unfortunately. No regard yes: yet Great regard. Great regard
for the purpose of seeing how far they has ever fulfil, a fact of ensuring fulfilling
that the end they appear to aim at, in so far as it is subservient to
the only proper universal end: no regard at all, for an any
such purpose as that of preserving or adopting them any further
than as they are subservient to that same end.
While the laws is are in its present state, no possession is
secure: all possessions are continually subverted: to giving to give security
to possession is not possible without giving subversion to the laws: without
substituting reality to fiction, order to chaos.
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rid yourselves of ultramaria |
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032 |
to mora |
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correspondence |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[fleur de lys] i&m 1818]] |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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1818 |
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