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1830 Sept 16
J.B. to France against Peers
Letter II against Peers
+ 1. Apologetica Ingratialence
For the 2d or 3d time J.B.
speaks as a French Citizen.
+ 2. Apol. Ingratialence
Questions two.
1. Discard the Peers? Per J.B.
Yes.
2. Institute a Senate? Per
J.B. No.
+ 3. Apol.
Rule with J.B. here practised
– state at the outset
the opinion you endeavor
to make prevalent
+ 4 Apol.
On politics no proposal does
J.B. ever make without
reason derived from
greatest happiness principle.
His own authority he sets
down as nothing.
+ 5 Apol
Reasons. At the outset in
the fewest words possible.
Follow developments for
those to whom they appear
needful.
+ 6. Apol.
Rhetoric – appeal to passion
or imagination – endeavor
at deception – none.
+ 7 Apol.
"Strike but hear" "Be
ag angry & sin not."
Sin, you will suffer –
not I: angry you cannot
make me.
+ 8. Apol.
With arms from the
above arsenals, with
ornaments form the
same wardrobe, others may
address you on the same
style side: to my simple
reasons they may
refer you for greater
security.
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+ 9. Evil 1 Delay
Evils from a House of Peers –
the following –
1. Pernicious delay. Measure
good – pernicious
delay in proportion to
its continuance – be
the good positive or
negative.
+ 10 Evil 2. Frustration
Sometimes retardation
is frustration.
+ 11.
By passing through two
Chambers delay necessarily
increased.
+ 9(a) Good and Evil translat.
Good & evil – mutually
translatable.
+ 12. Onus or Defenders
Evil being thus incontestable,
preponderant
good it belongs to
advocates to show.
This never attempted.
+ 13. This but a Small part
This but a small part
of the force opposed
by utility, to a Second
Chamber.
+ 14. Pure the Evil
Pure this evil.
For whatever good is
producible by delay
is producible without
it.
§. Locators Sinister
89, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98
Intr p. 17, 43, 44
45, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
§. Locators, enemies
46, 47, 48, 49, 50
§. Confounded is and
ought to be. 23, 24,
25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,
32, 33.
§. Error chain, proper
the authority begotten.
18, 19, 20
21, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74,
75, 76.
Sinister interest insatiable.
107, 108, 109
110, 111, 112.
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16. Good none intended
From such an institution
Good to the community
how should it
ever come? never was
it so much as thought
of.
+ 17. Cause particular interests
From particular interests
of ruling one, with
or without do do. of
ruling few came the
government originally.
Co-temporary and cor-respondent
habits of
commands and obedience.
+ 18. Thence prejudice.
Thence authority begotten
prejudice:
Our fathers wiser than
we: theirs wiser than
they: so on upwards
to Cæsar's Gauls. They
obeyed blindly; so
should we.
+ 19. Prejudice
Wise and good the
obeying class, how
much more the governing
class?
+ 20 Prejudice from England
Confirmation of the
prejudice, example
of England.
Till U.S. appeared
England more prosperous
than any other
State. In it had place
the Two House system
under the ruling one.
+ 21. Prejudice from U.S.
In the U.S. ruling
one's yoke shaken off,
Two Houses system was
mostly continued.
+ 22. Causes &c undistinguished
Confounded commonly are
causes, obstacles, uninfluencing
circumstances. Under that
government, prosperity great:
this, one ingredient
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