JB_106_382.xml

Title: [1823. March 2 Greece. J.Bs Observations]

Description: 1823. March 2

Greece. J.Bs Observations on particular Articles

Mahometans - Jews

In this or that Election District, say even in any number of Election Districts, suppose the Mahometan votes to out number the Christian, still no real inconvenience can ensue, so long as in the Representative Assembly the non Christians did not at any time out-number the Christians. If, however, any apprehensions on this score should notwithstanding be entertained, a very simple and inoffensive remedy might be provided; namely by making the age at which a Mahometan is permitted to vote, by any number of years that might be thought fit, more advanced than that at which a Christian is admitted to vote.

Strange it were, if by such treatment, the Mahometans were not rendered good Citizens. By the faculty of voting even supposing no Mahometans were allowed to sit as Representatives, they would be raised to a situation high in dignity, as well as security, in comparison of the highest which any of them can occupy even in a Mahometan country at present. To no Christian could in that case any Mahometan be, as such, an object of contempt.

In the mean time and until that happy change shall have been acknowledged to have taken place, one precaution is suggested by the indispensable care of self-defence. Of the Christian portion of the population the male part will, I take for granted, be trained, without any exception, in the military stile to the use of arms: trained, in the European form of military exercise, in the use of the musquet and the bayonet in companies and batallions. The operations performed in the course of this exercise being in their nature public, men of both portions of the circumcised race might, without the hardship of domestic inquisition, be interdicted from the right of taking part in any such exercise. They might even be interdicted from having fire-arms of the length of musquets in their possession. But, as to swords and pistols, these they might, it should seem, without danger have the liberty of keeping in their houses and wearing about their persons, in the character of instruments for self-defence. Arms, capable of being carried in secret, and by that means used as instruments of aggression[?], such as daggers and pistols, might, such of them as were small enough to be kept concealed, be comprized in the interdiction.

JB_161_518.xml

Title: [1818 Feb 3 Not Paul III. Doctrine]

Description: 1818 Feb 3

Not Paul

III. Doctrine

Ch. Motives to Doctrine

Asceticism II. Bed

I. Ordinary

13. And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to

dwell with her, let her not leave him.

14. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the Wife and the unbelieving wife

is sanctified by y e husband: else were your children unclean; but

now are they holy.

15. But if the unbelieving depart let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under

bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

16. For what knowest thou O Wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how

knowest thou O man whether thou shalt save thy Wife?

17. But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so

let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

JB_021_271s.xml

Title: [Greece Feb¼y¼. 1823 Brouillon of arrangements]

Description: Greece Feb¼y¼. 1823

Brouillon of arrangements meant to be recommended by J.B. to Greece. Quere how far employed in the papers sent, of which the corrected Brouillon is preserved?