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Title: [18 Jan y 1810 Parl y. Reform]

Description: 18 Jan y 1810

Parl y. Reform

Note

Ch.18

'.3. Friendship continued

4 or 3

37

14

Nor is the contradiction any other than apparent which a man falls into /engages in/ when he speaks of engaging selfishness in the service of social sympathy. You can not /That which, true it is that/ on any given occasion /individual occasion you can not do, is - to/ engage a man in a disinterested line of conduct by the force of reward, you cannot on one and the same occasion make it his interest to act disinterestedly. But what you can do is - by praise by honour in all the shapes you can contrive to dress it in you may engage a man in such sort by suitable meditation and suitable practice to train in and fashion the general mass of his affections, that on each particular occasion the part /law of nature/ most conducive to the public welfare may by the joint influence of all the forces that have been habitually employed /called to view/ in and of the social affection acting upon the largest scale a scale coextensive with the whole community, find in time a formed[?] disposition a propensity at least, even at the expence of self-regarding interest, especially in its grossest shape, the pecuniary shape, to pursue it.

Such has been the constant and common endeavour of all [...?] and all politicians, and what uphill work what Sisyphian labour, they have always found, history shews in colours but too striking /glaring/. At this time of day is it the part of a man[?] wise politician - is it the part of an honest moralist - by any the slightest intimation, to seek or suffer himself to add to so vast a load of difficulty?

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Title: [18 Jan y 1810 Parl y. Reform]

Description: 18 Jan y 1810

Parl y. Reform

Note

Ch.18 Sp.

'.3. Friendship continued

3 or 2

36

13

Hence it is that to that common-relative and highest and most powerful of public functionaries by whom to a certain degree the services of a father are always rendered to his people - in the greater degree and to the greater perfection in proportion as he renders /shews/ himself worthy of that name, the general character and disposition of a father are attributed /ascribed/, that so in virtue of the relation borne by him in common to them all, viewing in his person the central point and common bond of their affection, two subjects may be engaged to bear /nourish as/ towards one another some portion at least and that the amplest /largest[?]/ possible, of that sort of affection which is so natural and so happily frequent among brothers.

Hence it is that {foreigners} under the name of aliens, men of other countries /the subjects of other states/ in the pictures drawn of them in their political costume, are so often placed as it were at an exaggerated distance, that fellow subjects /children of the same father/ may with reference to one another be drawn as it were so much the closer and the nearer.

Hence it is that through the medium of praise in aid of that social affection the comparative weakness of which, particularly in that divided and diluted state in which it bears the names of patriotism and public spirit is felt so generally and so sensibly, the aid of the stronger affections notwithstanding the opposition, the irresistible opposition which in the character of rivals they are continually giving to it is under the pressure of necessity called in, and by all the contrivances which such necessity can suggest, endeavoured to be enlisted in its service, through the medium /by the instrumentality /mediation/ /intervention// of praise and honour, the love of reputation, and by the instrumentality of rewards even the self-regarding affections {are called in}. For in whatsoever degree it is insufficient of itself /how great soever may be the weakness under which it labours/ it is only from these its rival affections /other affections though its rivals/ that the more refined and generous affection can receive assistance.

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Title: [July 1810 + ' 2. + O 22 Fallacies]

Description: July 1810 + '

2. + O 22

Fallacies B 2. P\TtT\ 8 Ch 6 Sect 4 Ch.

| | Cause & Obstacle

| | Universities 1 Virtue

1. Virtue Univerities

So at /which/ the Bar, the grand insincerity - [...?] - [...?] they were thus no app[...?]tions to the evils[?] of falsehood [...?] ch[...?] from the [...?] they [...?] re[...?]d as to [...?] an opiate for their Consciences: thus Johnson who practising the arts of insincerity took law fees bit in money but in kind - in [...?] and nights lodgings was recruited to immorality[?] by the mediation of Usage.

S[...?] and Park at[?] shew how slight and frugel[?] the relation between Religion[?] in one part Truth and Justice in the other: how [...?] by a due attention to the cred[...?] agenda and an agenda may be left to the avowed arbitration of sinister interest

After their migration /ascension/ from the falshood and absurdity - school they find for this impregnation, birth in their own instance and in that of the body of the people who have been foxed and fascinated[?] by the same arts, a still higher use in high offices and upon benches.

In /By/ the acquiescence and even respect with which they have been accustomed to regard the sinecures of which in Oxford and Canbridge every thing /all /const[...?]ted/ situations/ byt the few Tutorships are composed they learn [...?] /imbibe[?]/ /accustom themselves/ to regard some of them in the character of politicians with that eye of partiality and affection the practice of that species of fraud which consists in obtaining public money for service not intended to be rendered with that eye of partiality and affection which prepares them for the pursuit /pursuing/ of the still better endowed sinecures which /afforded by/ the higher parts /situations/ of the establishment:

/and still by the practice of insincerity /the arts/ applied to ulterior obects of the same arts the arts of insincerity working on higher ground.