JB/137/248/001

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1820 Apr. 19

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Radicalism not dangerous V. Dangers real sources
*1 § Not lower but higher dangerous
§.1 Position delivered

§. Of Danger to national felicity the source is — always in
the disposition of the higher, never in that of the lower orders

1. In no country, at no time, under no form of government
is it in the nature of man to possess political
power without being engaged in the constant endeavour to
abuse it.

2. In no country, at no time under no form of government,
is there any reason just cause to apprehend, that any
portion of the people, sufficiently large to produce
a revolution change in the form of government, will engage in
any such endeavour, without ample cause.

3. Not under patience impatience, but under patience
ever has been, and ever will be, the error in conduct
to which the subject many from the very nature of their
situation, the subject many ever have been, and ever
will be proven.

4. In a Monarchy, intemperance and selfishness [have
ever been and ever will be the characteristic are the naturally characteristic qualities]
of the opposers of reform: temperance and self devotion self sacrifice
the characteristic qualities of the great body of the reformers

5. It is at all times the interest of In a Monarchy or an Aristocracy and in every government
composed in so far as these two forms enter into the
composition of it, it is the interest of the ruling few that
bad government shall have place: namely that sort of
bad government which has place in so far as the
interest of the subject many, and the corresponding portion of the sinister interest
of the ruling few.
the universal interest is sacrificed to the particular, which
in so far as it is opposite stands opposed to the more enlarged interest of the subject many
is

Identifier: | JB/137/248/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1820-04-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	248	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1*
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	46965
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