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1819 Dec.r 27

Radicalism not dangerous II. Nature of the case
§.9.iX Accomplishment
impossible, so design
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Per imagination,
(it being free) for the
pleasure of first destroying
their adversaries, radicalists
would destroy
themselves.

In so far as sincerity of supposable in any degree may have
had place, imagination — imagination alone — having
been the hand by which the portraiture plan ascribed
to the supposed Levellers has been drawn such, it
according to this plan, may have has been their desperation
— such their rage, that how perfectly assured so
ever assured of their own ultimate distinction, still, inunder
conditionthe supposition the assurance or though it even but the hopes of seeing itof all being precedes by the distinction
of their adversaries , even the prospect of self-destruction
has been might be an inviting one to them.

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But was admitting this
still design impossibility
Radicalists necessarily
are to themselves manifestly
would be the first
suffers.

But, not even even by this supposition, extravagant as
it is, could any tolerably substantial though like the shadow of ground be
made for the imputation. For supposing destruction to come
they would be the and not their adversaries would be the first to be involved
in it: and their priority as the in manifest to leave ever been unobserved by themselves.

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1. Agriculturalists though
not all could will land
keep themselves who
will petition, if they could
have without food till the
queries have become petition
and could so within
or cloathing.
Add not so manufacturers.

Yes: if they are all agriculturalists the supposed
conspiration on that supposition with a spade in hand, and ground to turn
up with it, and potatoe cuttings grow to put into it, if he a mancould live without a matter might if did not want either
for the time without fuel or fresh cloathing, he clothing or fuel or cloathing might keep himself alive
provided always thatif he could wait untiltill the potatoe germs had grown into
potatoes. | To p.3

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Just proprietors
would suffer last, and
the later the richer: with
themselves they would
export such property as
was expectable: neither
property, nor themselves
could the supposed plan
export: land a
with or without building
they could not export.. —

From p.3. But by the ing plan in stealing it were the supposed objects of rage and vengeance
the of property would be the last to suffer: all of them
together the last, and among them these the richer a man were,
and thence by the supposition the more obnoxious, the longer it would be before his
suffer his time of suffering came. With more or less
disadvantage he who had property would by exporting it along
with himself get some retain a part of it, or get something for it
in the way of exchange. But the supposed intended plunderers —
no property could they export, any more than their own persons: : the land
with its building they could not export, and that with or without buildings left in the hands
To p.4.
on it, is all — so it has been thence over and over again — that would be left To p.4

Identifier: | JB/137/129/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1819-12-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-8
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	129	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e2
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	46846
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