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1819 Decr 28.
Radicalism not dangerous.

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Not to look out at present for any more, these
are among the points about which, ere a design of the
sort changed could be so much as formed — not to speak
of its being acted upon — an agreement must have
been come to by all the several individuals engaged in
it. If there be any alternative, it must be this: namely
that, such has been the influence of certain leaders,
that all the rest have been under an agreement, to act in a
state of blind and preserving obsequiousness to whatsoever
design such leaders shall from time to time have
formed. But even in this case, these same points would
remain to be agreed upon by those leaders among
themselves; unless from the first they had agreed to repose
and keep themselves with that same degree of
blindness under the dominion of some one a
supposition which it is believed the universally known
facts will hardly be thought to admitt of.

So much as to the points which must have
been agreed upon on. That amongst any such number
of men as would be competent to make any advance
whatever towards the accomplishment of such a design
it were should be in nature of things that any such agreement
should have been, or should ever be so much as formed,
almost any person by whom any considerable attentive reflection
has been applied to bestowed upon them will it is believed
be already disposed at least to regard as impossible.
But this is but the first in that fabric of impossibilities
the stages of which will be successively brought to
view.

In addition to the agreement, one other condition
to the formation of such a design remains to be mentioned.
This is, that by every person embarking in it some prospect
of advantage — some — how fallacious and delusive
so ever must have been entertained — perserveringly entertained.
For, either some prospect of advantage to himself in some
shape or other either to himself immediately, or to some portion
of his fellow men, and thus to himself
or to some portion of his fellow men no man engages in any
design whatsoever much less in a design so full not only of
labour and hardship, but danger in every shape, much less
so large a multitude as that which upon the supposition have
been thus conceived.

Identifier: | JB/137/225/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1819-12-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	225	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	46942
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