JB/137/016/001

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1819 July 1

To Erskine
(5)

As on all occasions so in this My wish is to be understood, my Lord, as clearly as possible.
When men who have been in the secret of things behold in the one see the dæmon of
destruction ordering the business of government under a
representative democracy, it is not bad government, it is good
government they are afraid of: it is not good government, it is
bad government they wish to perpetuate: that bad government
in under which the interest of all besides is in so barbarous so largely and barbarously a manner
sacrificed to the personal interests of themselves and their
associates in tyranny.

Lett. 7. Whigs Anti Reformists
§ 5 Posit Why ?

or 19 or 7
When a man who
has been in the
secret of things pretends
to see in the
air the dæmon of
destruction ordering
the business of
government under a
representative democracy,
not bad but
good government is
he afraid of seeing
not good but bad
government be is it his
wish to perpetuate
that bad government
under which the universal
interest is
sacrificed in do of him
and his.

Identifier: | JB/137/016/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1819-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 19 or 7
Box	137	Main Headings	parliamentary reform
Folio number	016	Info in main headings field	to erskine
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	46733
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