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1830. Dec. 4.
J.B. to Belgians.

Jeremy Bentham
to the
Belgie Nation and its Congress.
On Kingship and its Equipment

Letter III
(In continuation.)

Belgians!

I continue. My second address to you, which
I had regarded as being the last, time and space by their joint
pressure forced me to break off abruptly: and after all
by an unfortunate accident I lost the post. This present
continuation will however, I hope, be the conclusion: nor that
a lengthy one.

Delusion it was, if I misrecollect not, that
was the last topic touched upon in that same Second Letter:
delusion presented to you in the character of an additional
fruit produced by the matter of that corruption which in a perennial
Spring issues from under and flows down from every political
State that calls itself a throne. At present after reference made
once more to what under that head may be seen in my letter to
my Fellow-Citizens of France was on the subject of Peers and
Second Chambers, little presents itself as needing to be added here.

Of delusion in addition to the matter of corruption, words
are there spoken of as another source: more especially
the two preeminently flaming ones, splendor and lustre.
The delusion spread by them over this part of the field of
legislation a few additional words of more honest intent
intention may in this place (it is hoped) help to
dissipate.

Note well, my friends, note well and admire the usefulness
– the miraculous, the wonder-working usefulness – of those same
brilliant words; to a King they are a very gold mine, or if you
please still more appropriately may they be stiled a diamond
mine.

Required an instrument of persuasion by the application of
which the people of a country – the members of a community – may
be made to lie still and quiet, while their pockets are picked by
and of the last doit: still, as a trout while tickled by and into
the hand of the expert fisherman. Solved is this problem by
either of those words: namely, when employed as a

Identifier: | JB/023/148/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 23.
Date_1	1830-12-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	023	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	148	Info in main headings field	jb to belgians
Image	001	Titles	jeremy bentham to the belgic nation and its congress / on kingship and its equipment / letter iii (in continuation)
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 f11 / d6 f16
Penner		Watermarks	street & co 1830
Marginals		Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1830
Notes public		ID Number	8019
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