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In the present instance the exclusion is injurious (so it
will be seen to be) on a double account; injurious, that is
to say not only to the individual but to the community of
which he is a Member: in what way it is so, you will see.

Against the exclusion you will see reasons more than one,
any one of which would of itself be sufficient: reasons in
favour of it, not one.

I begin with this one clear, strong, and impressive argument. reason.
By inaptitude for the conduct of a man's private
and individual concern, evil to him be produced to any
extent imaginable. In On the part of a Member of any political
Assembly, at any rate on the part of a Member of a legislative
assembly, of no considerable evil can the most complete
inaptitude be any occasion productive, unless it has
place in every one Member of a majority of the whole number
on that same occasion present: and of the existence
of any such majority, composed of individuals every
one of them rendered unapt for the situation by this cause,
is then any the smallest probability? Presently you
will have to judge whether any considerable probability
has place on the part of so much as a
single one. (a)

Experience is more readily comprehended than theory:
Experience is more impressive than theory: Experience is more
extensively, more universally comprehended than theory. Well
then — Take at the outset this experience: look to the English Parliament:
look there, and there you will see already seated at that
same age of 21 those two men distinguished for appropriate
aptitude in all its branches taken together — the two the most
illustrious that ever sat in it: each of them at that same age
head and leader of one of the two parties in the state.

(a) In every instance in which it is not needful, exclusion
put upon a right of any sort is injurious and unjustifiable. Why?
because the effect of it is a defalcation to an extent more
or less considerable from a man's means of happiness.

Yet, over the whole field of law, how extensive is the application
made of these exclusions! of what may be called the
exclusionary system! Of this error, extensively prevalent as it
is, the causes seem to be not altogether out of the reach of discovery;
but, for this inquiry, the present is not the time.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	023	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	103	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2 / e5
Penner	james mill	Watermarks	street & co 1830
Marginals		Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1830
Notes public		ID Number	7974
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