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1821. July 6.
J.B. to Carvalho

Were it not for that same nation what should I be to you?
Just nothing. were it not for that same nation, what could
you expect yourself to be to me? Just as much. Confess,
therefore, to yourself that if, in by any thing that I have been
saying, or I have exposed myself either to your displeasure, or to contempt in so doing
I have no otherwise done than you might have done in my
place.

Notwithstanding all this distrust and all this threatening,
it would, I am sure, have afforded the most cordial delight
to a mind like yours could you have witnessed the impression
made in my little circle by the communication for which
our first thanks are due to you. It seemed to us not as if
the golden age had revived; for I to have a notion if there be any such
thing as a golden age, we have no notion of going backwards to
look for it; but as if it were now just born in Portugal:
Born born and exemplified in a set of men whose breasts to a degree
beyond any thing that human nature had been thought capable
of, are warmed, and almost engrossed, by social sympathy,
operating upon the most extensive scale.

Believe me, if you do not what I would now have
you do, you have done already a great deal more than you
designed to do: you were not aware of the force which you
have given me – of the force which, upon this supposition, will
be turned against yourselves. In the opposite case, however, you
will find that those sympathies, of which your breasts have thus
given the manifestation, have not failed of meeting with their
match in mine. Think what, by a junction of such affections
and such force, we shall be enable to do for your country,
and, through your country, for the civilized world! Think
whether, after physical necessities are provided for, there be any
number of milreas capable of outweighing the delight of which
the accomplishment of what we might thus be accomplished by us would
be the source! Think what will be our triumph, in the
eyes of the degraded and enslaved and oppressed, and systematically
plundering and plundered nation, from the yoke
of whose rulers you have so magnanimously and fabulously broken loose!

Identifier: | JB/013/204/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1821-07-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	204	Info in main headings field	jb to carvalho
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	see note to letter 2776, vol. 10	ID Number	4653
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