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1820 Feb. 27
Radicalism not dangerous

III Experience
II Ireland
7 §.5. Iron age restored

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Advantage of despotism
the compleater, the greater
the promise of mercy that
addition to profit of tyranny
Under it View in all private covers
itself with the mantle
of virtue.

Mercy supposes tyranny:
take away
tyranny, away goes
mercy, remains pure
justice.

The more mischief
he can produce, the more
the despot can abstain
from producing: for
every lot abstained from
prostrate multitude
gives him promise of
mercy.

Among the advantages possessed by despotism, one is
that so long as the blindness produced by it continues the
praise of mercy beneficence/benevolence as in so may in proportion as the despotism
is pure and compleat be reaped in conjunction
with the profit of tyranny. Under it vice is at all points covers itself
covered wrapped up with the mantle of virtue. Rightly understood all
mercy supposes is among the exercises of tyranny every claim to the praise merit of
mercy is a confession of tyranny: take away tyranny
that which is called mercy is of beneficially exercise
nothing more than justice. The more mischief The greater the quantity of evil
a man has it in his power to produce, the greater the quantity
what it is in his power to abstain from producing: and
for every lot of evil which the Monarch abstains from producing
be obtained at the hands of the prostrate multitude the
praise of mercy. Monarchy and the is almost the only
soil theatre, in which that species even in that form/thralling in which it assumes the character/under the mask of benevolence of vice which calls itself mercy
can make its appearance: have its growth/have any considerable growth under aristocracy, the praise
being to as it were lost in such a multitude lost for want
of an individual to fix upon, is seldom claimed, in a
democracy, there being no person and pr in whom any such power
is to be found as that of doing evil with impunity is to be found, there is
no place for mercy.

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Sole soil for mercy
Monarchy. In Aristocracy
none,
no praise for it,
for want of an individual
to fix upon:
In Democracy none:
no individual capable
of doing evil with impunity.

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Date_1	1820-02-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	11-12
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