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1819 Aug. 25. Fallacies 6 Ch | | Cause
1819 Aug. 25.

Fallacies 6 Ch | | Cause & Obstacle confounder

First as to the Monarch. To shew in what way that portion of the power which rests in the hands of the Monarch is contributory or conducive to the end in question /has operated as a cause of the good effect in question:/ it never has been so much as attempted. /to shew in what ways it has operated as an obstacle to that same good effect is easy./ His interest stands plainly in a state of undeniable opposition to the universal interest. His interest is to have in his own possession /in/ the greatest quantity possible the greater quantity of those good things on the quantity of which the quantity of happiness is generally understood to depend /regarded as depending/: and that therefore in the hands, and for the one of those by whom clear means of happiness have been produced, there should remain /the quantity remaining/ as small a quantity /of them/ as possible, the quantity remaining unseized by them should at all times be as small as possible

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