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1820 Apr. 20

Radicalism not dangerous V. Dangers real source
1 § Not lower but higher dangerous
§.1 Positions

§. What danger there is, is — not from radicalism or
democracy, but from Monarchy and Aristocracy.

§

If neither in the system expressed by the words radical
reform — if neither in the system itself nor in the means necessary
to the establishing of it there is danger in
what else other sense then (it may be asked) shall we look are we to look for
those dangers to which government is exposed? to what
other source object shall we look for the cause of those evils
of which the existence is unhappily so unquestionable,
of those evils under which the country has been so long
suffering, and continues suffering at this moment? I
know — to the absence of radical reform, and nothing
else. By d radical reform and nothing else less
can the people be placed in a state of tolerable security
against injury in all shapes at the hand of their rulers

[Of changes How so? For what reason? Even because]
If The case is — the danger to national felicity the source is — always
in the disposition of the higher, never in that of the lower
rulers.

To be That it may be the more clearly apprehended it may the proposition
may perhaps require to be perhaps be of use that the proposition be a little more developed
For this purpose take the following subordinate ones position
may perhaps be found to serve.




Identifier: | JB/137/247/001
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1820-04-20

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137

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radicalism not dangerous

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247

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radicalism not dangerous

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001

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1

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recto

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e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

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Notes public

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46964

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