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1830. Sept. 27
J.B. to France against Peers against Peers
Letter II against Peers.
Dignity
159
Gallicè, not so well understood
is the art of
as in England.
Gallicè, in the Noblesse all
ranks are equal, those excepted
which are conferred
by Dukedom or antiquity
of family in which the
grades are
160
Anglicè grades
two.
161
Sacred grades, two. As dignity
is piety or say holiness,
sacredness, sanctity, piety,
spirituality, gaseousness.
You understand me. This
is no laughing matter.
162
With the of these
attributes rises the
of the pile of sovereigns employed
in support of it.
163
is
to be interpreted by the rule
of contraries – the text on
which Jesus forbids the
placing trust on
164
Of the three branches of the
depredators language, that
which is called by the gross
term of the cant is
the only one inserted in
a dictionary. Remains for
insertion
2. Lawyers' Cant
3. Priests' Cant, as above.
165
Necessitated is an addition
to the taxes by every
creation of a peerage, by
every advance in the
Peerage.
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Dignity
166
Think of the tax imposed by
the creation of a Monarch
by the advance of
to Kingship, or a
King to an Emperorship!
☞ Follow enumeration of
these late taxes.
167
Democracy is by some thought
or pretended to be tantamount
to Anarchy.
In U.S. a Democracy.
In that instance has the
equivalent place?
168.
In the U.S. if for all desirable
objects securable by
law security is afforded,
more effectually than anywhere
else either
Democracy is not anarchy
or Anarchy is more
desirable than any Government.
And so it is.
169
With the degree of such security
afforded by the U.S.
Constitution compare that
said to be afforded by Matchless
Constitution.
170.
Real seat of anarchy England
Scotland Ireland.
1. Of Constitutional non-existence
2. Of all law unwritten
non-existence
3. Of all existing law non-cognoscibility.
4. Of Justice, inaccessibility.
5. thence of security for
all objects of general desire
as above.
172
To speak out, necessity. Constitution
none.
Form of government there,
because every where, having for
its effect, because for its object, minimization
of the happiness of the
many, for the maximization of that of the few and one.
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