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1819 Dec. 24

Radicalism not dangerous II. Nature of the case
§5. V. Shares indeterminate

§.5.v. Determination of Sharers impossible

Our stage men to the pile of impossibilities.

Thus a ground to build supposition upon might not
at the very outset be altogether wanting, a preliminary supposition as look up with was — that
of an equal a partition to be made of the whole subject makes
of the rights in question of property, at some time to be fixed amongst all the members of the community
without distinction, in equal shares.

But, in so doing, what we were forced to do was —
to assume as actual, that which in the nature of things, as
the reader will have already probably have seen before
every body must by this time, is impossible.

In Among a small and limited number of individuals — among
such a number, if the subject matter be suitable, an equal
a division, properties equal or unequal, might be made:
Not so where the body for example body taken, in the shape of money, out of a
from a carriage-full of passengerstravellers, by a company of highwaymen.

Not so where, to the subjection were the subject matter
even this simple, among a multitude amounting to millions though they were
but innds.
or were my reads Which the process of partition was going on, the number of the
sharers would be continually on the change: changing: it would never be the same for [+] Death would be
each every one and
adding to the number:
birth, subtracting from
it.
two days together. But, the number of the sharers being each
day different, the amount of a share would be each day different.
Every day the process would be recommencing; on
no day would it ever terminate. While the hand that held
the food was lifting it up to the mouth that layed to it, next there
would to another hand that the very next to it would be another hand that would be would by be entitled to enter
entitled and ready to intercept it; a third hand to take it from the second, and so in
all over the whole kingdom. through the whole and all this by law according to law.

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