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Ch. Prospects as to Reform
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These evils have been produced partly by absurdity
partly by stupidity, partly by carelessness partly by design,
by design and study and exertion employed in the endeavour
to give both of them for the sake and in full view of
the profit admitted is capable of being extracted out of
them
Impossible, impossible! Monsters such as these! the
existence of them is not possible!
Monsters? Not they indeed: neither were the
men—ordinary men: men such as by this situation,
men placed in the situation would become of course
Monsterclass — if there be any in the imaginable monsterclass
in the case, the members would be not those
who in this situation had acted as they have done,
but those who in that same situation had acted otherwise.
Th Say that the nature of man admitts not of
any such monsters as well might you a man say the nature
of man admitts not of any such monsters as Slave
dealers, Slave holder Brad East India Directors or East
Board of Contract men or East India Proprietors
that the nature of men admitts use of any such being as
a Sir Edward Page the aristocracy breed who instead of calming the makers
over and over again, as his prescription on the Bullion had
done by kind treatment kind words and of a
few privates killed slaughtered by hundreds those who stood with those who without resistance
stood, with by grapes those who were flying and by
those who are taken made prisoners.
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