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1819 Dec 7
Radicalism not dangerous

Introd
IV. Readers sincere & insincere
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Question. For whose
use this intended?
Answer. For insincere
opponents not: for
sincere, yes

A question But (says somebody) that will naturally be presenting itself to the
mind of a reader for whom whose use is it that this designation examination
of gains is intended? To this question I will give
a plain answer

The aggregate mass of possible reader I divide
for the purpose into the sincere and the insincere

By the sincere insincere I mean those who hold up to
view as likely to emane from radical reform if
carried into effect the disastrous consequences in question
and in particular the suborne of the right of property
either in toto to use the learned phrase of Mr Deputy
or to any considerable amount.

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Sincere, those who
either by reflection
or by authority
are led to this apprehension.
But for the hope
that some might be
in this case, this work
could not have existed
would have been motiveless:
effect without cause.

By the sincere I mean all such person
as either by th such reflection as they themselves have
bestowed on the subject, i.e. by a self-formed judgment or by the assertion made by
others: sincere or insincere i.e. by a derivative judgement
grounded derived from in the authority of the species as supplied
species of those others may have been but to adopt entertain this
this alarming afflicting apprehension.

If there were not persons in no small number
to whom this in my own opinion description is truly applicable these pages
would not could not have had existence: the labour
being on that supposition without hope would on that
same supposition have been without a worker — an
effect without a cause

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Insincere, the opponents
from adverse interest
These the more thoroughly
concerned of the usefulness
of radicalism, the
more pronouncing their
determination to treat the
arguments for it either
with silence or
bellowing
or expression of pretended
contempt.

As to the insincere those are the opponents from interest. Those the more perfectly they are in
their own minds convinced that no answer ap capable
of lessening it effect of it in the minds of the sincere can be
given to it, the more thoroughly this will be confirmed in the

the determination to
maintain either the most
perfect silence in
relation to it the
most perfect silence
and when forced into
notice by accident upon their notice to put it aside by some several expressions of scorn and contempt such as they are so perfectly in the
habit of employing and accordingly seeing accepted at the hands of those who by the same interest stand engaged to bestow on it the same reception

Identifier: | JB/137/083/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1819-12-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	17-19
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	083	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e7
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	46800
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