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1819 Dec. 16 Radicalism not dangerous

II Nature of the Case
§.7.VII Other Spoliation impossible
or 1
Objector, no such
regular plan will be
fixt on, Leader will
act on a secret plan
of their own; following ,
one more, trusting to
leaders: their object
plunder in general.
or 2
Answer. No: without
some award plan
in which each sees
a prospect of
determinate benefit
to himself for
either parties
or common to him
with others, none
will not subject himself
to such labour
and danger
No such plan has
or can be proposed.
the objective challenged
to imagine one .
Saying to believe it
let any one judge whether
he says true.
or 3
Af any such blind
confidence, masks
this should
none: marks many
and notorious of its
diffidence.

§.7.VII. Concurrence in any other extention plan of spoliation impossible.

Every other plan would to
and destructive to the pleasure

Nay but (says somebody) no such regular and generally agreed plan of
partition and plunder will may perhaps be fixt upon. But,
under the guidance of their leaders the multitude may
proceed in the work of insurrection, depradation and destruction and ing
without any plan at all: plan trusting to their leaders for their
for their having already framed an apposite plan, or at any for their framing one ]
framing what the having framed any before the time for action comes. All this which
the leaders may have been acting on a secret plan
of their own: a plan having for its object the acquisition of
opulence, in some shape or other, for each, the condition
of the multitude being left to chance.

Answer. For the purpose of the argument let the
secret plan have been formed by the leaders and that secret plan plan of as dishonest and mischievous as
any one pleases. But still, in front of this secret plan to be an avowed
plan — an openly avowed plan — a plan which, to the
great majority of the supposed inrichments and would-be
depredators, must afford a promise a promise
more or less plausible- plausible howsoever hollow of probable
good: of good to each of them. I . U.p.2

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Date_1	1819-12-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 1 - or 3
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	123	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1816]]
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