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1836 Sept.11
J.B
Self.III To Majority
Men wishing to prolong his own power as being on pr (1) 6
It is the interest of the aged to promote the opinion of the
1. Machination most mischief was the last appearance
2 Older men depbing of wisdom in ages jealous of participation of pairs by the
Younger
3. Polytechnative this as is for years - and from 8th quarter
a man 83 than 82.
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Source of the adoption
of the exclusionary
principle chosen
to see the strength
of public spirit minimized.
Youth is the season.
—
So much as to the 25years. Not As to the forty years, as it
16 As it comes not (this exclusion) from the greatest
happiness principle, with reason for the guidance of its
application, - whence then did it come? Answer
from the profoundest Machevelism [+]; in a principle [+] most mischief
done in greatest
qualaity, with least
appearance
—
by which the quantity of mischief is
maximized, so is the concealment given to it. The
What was this s is - that the further a man is advanced
in life, the strange wits be his propensity to of virtue. self sacrifice the older
the individual, the
stronger the force of
self-regarding interest
yield to corruption in all its shapes. in all their
shapes in which such of your as he taken in
may so the subject of Second Chambers have
seen it delinated; to yield to corruption in all th
shapes, and in and by so doing to yield himself
to be an a pa in activity as with
as passivity obedient slave to absolution.
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