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§.6.
III. Experience
II. Ireland
(1)
Ætiology
To men to whom the state of Ireland in these days
is not familiar — and in particular to the generations
which have sprung up since that time have question
will probably ere now have been apt to present themselves
— by what inducements these men of high rank and power were
engaged to led to take the part make common cause with the people at
one turn and by what inducement they were engaged
to abandon that cause — how they came it came to take at one
time to take the part they did — at another time to come
to do so: and in particular as to Lord Charlemont
how it happened that at one time he consented to
acted as the hired member of the National Convention
of Delegates, at another time and finally set him and
with success to divest it of its influence, and finally
to extinguish it.
By any person who to whom it by whom it is known understood with
which inevitable necessary human conduct in all places
and at all times is under the dominance of interest —
and at the by whom it is at the same time
considered what on that occasion was the state of interests
these questions answer themselves. So far as
in relation for a general question a general answer
may be received admitted as satisfactory the not many more
words will be necessary for the answers than for the questions.
So far as in their view their interests and that of the people
were the same, they the interest being supported was that of the
people: so far as in their view their own interest was different from
and
and opposite irreconcilable to
that of the people,
continuing
as they did their
adherence to their own
interest, they sacrificed
to that private interest the
universal interest, and having mounted raised themselves/on the shoulders of the people raised themselves to independent power, backed down the ladder by which they had mounted
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radicalism not dangerous |
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radical reform bill |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1816]] |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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