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1820 Feb. 4
Radicalism not dangerous

III Experience
II Ireland.
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had. But the distinction between the democratic interest and
the interest of that part of the aristocracy which is out of office
is by the time p in a word the distinction between sham reform
under the name of moderate, and efficient reform under
the name of radical, is by this time pretty well understood.
Unless therefore he will declare himself openly a
friend to radical reform, there may be offered that plan which
has in him an open enemy avowed adversary: and even after such
declaration, they should more suppose to be for a moment to be
out of memory mind that thing in all the highly probable one
is that they have in him a design on a real adversary
under the disguise of a confidante and friend.

Situation and past conduct is what they will look
to, in conjunction with declarations of present and considered
intentions: as for professors of ultimate intention and of untimely
motives every thing manageable of this sort put together is
not worth a straw. Professi As to influence the more
clamorously it is called for, the more determinedly it should
be refused: Professors are just as easily moved by the
falsest as by the truest of motives. It is by the falsest
they are most apt to be, the falsest being those by whom
the need of them is most acutely sincerely felt. to
it its interest of or any understanding will be the strength of the impression
made by all such professions in his belief. If Worse they
but considered in this their true light as an insult to the
understanding of those to whom they are made addressed falsehood
in the force paper, time and patience would not be
to as lamentable a degree wasted by falsehood and absurdity in this form as they were

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Date_1	1820-02-04	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	328	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	47045
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