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1820 April 22
Radicalism not dangerous

IV Experience III British
record
1 §.1. Actual danger none

§.1 In the recent instances, the Radicalism had no design
dangerous to person or property.

For the sake of method, the pos position is advanced,
but it neither needs nor admitts of proof. It is a negative
position; the truth of it is matter of notoriety: if as it
be continued any thing that is not true, it has upon those
if any but their own who profess to regard it as not true, to prove as much produce the proofs

That, to by any number capable of producing any
considerable mischief, any such design as that of effecting
a general subversion of property, has already it is hoped
been reduced pretty effectually put out of doubt.

But in the course of these proceedings rather
in prosecution of the design in question, the view they which man could
not but have had of the depravity of the system they were
the reform of which they were endeavouring it was their endeavour thus to prosecute,
the assurance they could not but have of the opposition that
which these endeavours would have to encounter, and of the
nature and character of that opposition and the income which
it had been and could be employing in support of it, more
or less of irritation might not at all by no concern improbably be produced:
nor and from that irritation proceeding, injurious
to person or property, or to both might naturally be apt to
arise.

In all this which has just been supposed, there is nothing
but what might naturally have been expected to be realized,
And if it had been realized? what then? In Answer The
demand for reform would have stood exactly as it was before
it would have stood unanswered. To anti-reformists there would have
been so much advantage gained: to sub reformists, who in such a state
of
of things would have found
an opportunity of playing
off one some of their standing
fallacies — use of their fallacious
irrelevancies, by
drawing aside the attention
of
of the public from its only proper object — the nature and character of the system for which reform was and is demanded, to an improper object, the character of this or that individual
by whom it is demanded.

Identifier: | JB/137/250/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1820-04-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	250	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	[[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	46967
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