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<head>1820 <sic>Apr.</sic> 19</head> <!-- in pencil --> <p>A<lb/>Radicalism not dangerous <note>V. Dangers real sources</note><lb/>*1 <note>§ Not lower but higher dangerous<lb/> §.1 Position delivered</note></p> <!-- paragraph crossed through in pencil --> <p>§. <add>Of</add> Danger to national felicity the source is — always in<lb/>the disposition of the higher, never in that of the lower orders</p> <!-- paragraph numbers 1-4 in pencil --> <p>1. In no country, at no time, under no form of government<lb/>is it in the nature of man to possess political<lb/>power without being engaged in the constant endeavour to<lb/>abuse it.</p> <p> 2. In no country, at no time under no form of government,<lb/>is there any reason <add>just cause</add> to apprehend, that any<lb/>portion of the people, sufficiently large to produce<lb/>a revolution <add>change</add> in the form of government, will engage in<lb/>any such endeavour, without ample cause.</p> <p>3. Not under <del>patience</del> impatience, but under patience<lb/>ever has been, and ever will be, the error in conduct<lb/>to which the subject many from the very nature of their<lb/>situation, the subject many ever have been, and ever<lb/>will be proven.</p> <p>4. In a Monarchy, intemperance and selfishness <!-- brackets in pencil --> [have<lb/>ever been and ever will be the characteristic <add>are the naturally characteristic</add> qualities]<lb/>of the opposers of reform: temperance and self devotion <add>self sacrifice</add><lb/>the characteristic qualities of the great body of the reformers</p> <p>5. <del>It is at all times the interest of</del> <add> In a Monarchy or an Aristocracy</add> and in every government<lb/><del>composed</del> in so far as these two forms enter into the<lb/>composition of it, it is the interest of the ruling few that<lb/>bad government shall have place: namely that sort of<lb/>bad government which has place in so far as the <del><gap/></del><lb/>interest of the subject many, and the corresponding portion of <note>the sinister interest<lb/> of the ruling few.</note><lb/>the universal interest is sacrificed to the particular, which<lb/>in so far as it is opposite <add>stands opposed</add> to the more enlarged interest of the subject many<lb/> <add>is</add></p> | |||
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1820 Apr. 19
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Radicalism not dangerous V. Dangers real sources
*1 § Not lower but higher dangerous
§.1 Position delivered
§. Of Danger to national felicity the source is — always in
the disposition of the higher, never in that of the lower orders
1. In no country, at no time, under no form of government
is it in the nature of man to possess political
power without being engaged in the constant endeavour to
abuse it.
2. In no country, at no time under no form of government,
is there any reason just cause to apprehend, that any
portion of the people, sufficiently large to produce
a revolution change in the form of government, will engage in
any such endeavour, without ample cause.
3. Not under patience impatience, but under patience
ever has been, and ever will be, the error in conduct
to which the subject many from the very nature of their
situation, the subject many ever have been, and ever
will be proven.
4. In a Monarchy, intemperance and selfishness [have
ever been and ever will be the characteristic are the naturally characteristic qualities]
of the opposers of reform: temperance and self devotion self sacrifice
the characteristic qualities of the great body of the reformers
5. It is at all times the interest of In a Monarchy or an Aristocracy and in every government
composed in so far as these two forms enter into the
composition of it, it is the interest of the ruling few that
bad government shall have place: namely that sort of
bad government which has place in so far as the
interest of the subject many, and the corresponding portion of the sinister interest
of the ruling few.
the universal interest is sacrificed to the particular, which
in so far as it is opposite stands opposed to the more enlarged interest of the subject many
is
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