JB/137/359/001

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1820 Jany 19
Radicalism not dangerous

III. Experience
III. Ireland After period
(4) Sheffield against Reform

In aid of all particular imagination the reader will
not now be surprized at seeing his Lordship resort
like every body else so many others on that same side to the theory
about the levelling system alias the Cyranic law which by
the bye had nothing in common with it. + + Sect..

The case in regard to government is his Lordships theory has two branches
one concerning what ought to be, the other concerning
what is: the first instance having the other for the
support.

[The strength of the claim which a set of men have
to have their interests regarded is conversely as their
number]

Quantity of interest the same, in the instance of every
use, the interest of the many ought to give way to the interest
of the few, not that of the few to that of the many. If suffering
be to be disposed of it is better to apply it to two than to
one, to four than to three, and so on: of enjoyment, it is better
to give apply it to one than to two to two than to four and so
on. Thus Such is the his Lordships theory in in respect the question what might
to be done: or for fear of mistakes to let us take his Lordships
own language and with only the slight change of words/addition insertion of the word as necessary to b express his meaning say "the advantage" of the [not] of the few
many [but] of the few should be considered "..." the majority
"should [not] govern &c."

This was not only natural
but necessary: experience
is stubborn: imagination
does for men what they
please.

Thus

Identifier: | JB/137/359/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1820-01-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	359	Info in main headings field	radicalism not dangerous
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	47076
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