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1819 Dec.17
Radicalism not dangerous.
Sponge II Nature of the case
3.§.10.X Sponge no pro
Reasons against
War favoured
War propensity
6
6.Otherwise if Suppose this country wars
more likely to be engaged
in a necessary than
an unnecessary war:
but this I deny.
But the necessary a
question is not
payment but abolition
4 continued in 5. If this country more likely to enga
be engaged in a war of necessity and mere defence in a necessary
and defensive war than in an unnecessary and offensive one
on that supposition, the effect of the continuance of the extinction or diminution
of the debt might upon the whole be advantageous,
but in no such supposition one I accede But to advance any such position shall be left to those of any such
there be who either believes the truth of it themselves, or <add>can make sure of persuading others so to do</add> thank thems
But the measure here in question is not the payment
<add>but insolvency
</add> tion not by paying off the interest principal of the debt but</del>
refusing to pay the part of the whole of the interest
Note that the use of the debt as a security against war, applies
as well against equally to the case of payment, as against to the case of
bankruptcy.
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