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In every actual society, the government has neglected
to instruct the people in sound political science,
or pains have been taken by the government or the
classes that influence the government, to exclude the
bulk of the community from sound political science,
& to perpetuate or prolong the prejudices which
weaken & distort their understandings. Every society,
therefore, is inadequately instructed or enlightened!
And in most or many societies, the
love or hate of the people towards their established
government would scarcely beget a presumption
that the government was good or bad. An
ignorant people may love their established government,
though it positively crosses the purpose
for which it ought to exist: though by cherishing
pernicious institutions & fostering mischievous
prejudices it positively prevents the progress in
useful knowledge in happiness, which its subjects
would make spontaneously if it simply
were careless of their good. If the goodness of an
established government be proportioned to the love of
the people, the priest — bestridden government of besotted
Portugal or Spain is probably the best of
governments! As weighed against Miguel & Ferdinand,
Trajan & Aurelius, or Frederic & Joseph,
were fools & malignant tyrants. And as an ignorant
people may love their established government, though
it positively crosses the for which it ought

Identifier: | JB/149/343/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings
Folio number	343	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2
Penner		Watermarks	smith & allnutt 1831
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
Notes public		ID Number	50197
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