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This Page Has Not Been Transcribed Yet 1825. June Rationale of Reward V.2
In a Democracy alone can that antiseplie
light shine forth. In a Monarchy, it is kept by force
under the bushel. In a Monarchy, the people, with
their property re and feel themselves to be, the property
of the Monarchy. In a Monarch, every man beholds a
and oppression: to cheat him, is but to take back
what he stole: in a limited Monarchy, every man beholds
a corruption, or : be corruption, into the bargain.
In neither, is ant man ashamed of reversing himself upon
a property which, after being forcibly taken from the
and those to whom they have passed it over, is the whole
of it in name, and in so large a proportion in effect, the Kings
In a representation democracy, in which nothing is taken
from any individual without previous actual consent,
immediate or unimmediate, no man can steal from
Government without stealing from his neighbour. This being
seen by every lady, nobody could steal from government
without chasing himself not only to punishment but to
shame: to shame ^a species of suffering, which a man is made to
undergo on much less evidence. Than is required for
the inflictions of punishment under the name of punishment
Thus says theory But to this theory, the Paussion
anecdote will oppose what will be called experience The Minister
makes his prophecy: the King believes it. The whole mass
of official salary receives an addition of one half: the
whole of the revenue of one third. So says the story: a
prettier one the heart of a placeman could not with
three things only and wanting to it: consistency, probability
and evidence
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