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1821 Feb. 17
Rid Yourselves
Subject may wise-prudence
Such are the points blessing of false is the state of things
which it is demanded by the interest of all, when taken in the aggregate:
should have place: such small parcels of felicity such
the blessing, which it confers but is the second
such is the by the state of things by the such interest
such is the state of things demanded more particularly by
the interest of the subject many.
Very Widely different is the demand any state of things demanded
by the interest of the ruling few. The state of things demanded by
Of the ruling few the interest there the of the those fruits of good government
in all their shapes of the their interest is – that of those same objects of general desire in all their several
shapes power many factitious dignitary each and means of eventual vengeance enjoyment of ease
shapes shapes the quantity accumulated in continually flowing into their own hands: that in their
should be as large as possible: that an their part, as against the subject many,
instance security for person, property, reputation, and condition
in life be as entire as possible; in that that on the part of the subject many
it should that as against them it be as as possible.
In a word of those by whose labour the instruments of
subsistence and abundance are produced it is the interest than
their share in the possession and enjoyment of them those instruments of felicity be as large
as possible: of those who do not in any way contribute
to the production of those same instruments it is the interest
that their own share of them be as large as possible, and
in so far as by any share possessed by and enjoyed by them others there are
would be diminished, that the share possessed and enjoyed
by those others be as small as possible.
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