JB_111_092.xml

Title: [1818 Aug. 28. §.4 Things as they are]

Description: 1818 Aug. 28. §.4

Things as they are

§.4. Wars

1

§. -- unnecessary wars.

Of so many wars as England has been engaged in the last if not the only one which could make any pretension to the epithet of necessary, were those waged against Lewis the fourteenth of France But this were anterior to the grand epoch of epochs the birth of the National Debt.

Immediately preceding these necessary wars if such they were, behold those two wars against the Dutch, which without disguise /cloak/ or varnish exhibit war and its causes, in their genuine colours. The succeeding ones were against Lewis: these preparatory ones were with him and for him. Of these wars plunder in the one case, bribery in /the/ another were the ever[?] undisputed causes: plunder as well after the declaration of war as before declaration: for that enormous /insane and thoughtless /unlimited// transfer of the whole of the game to the gamekeepers was not as yet made: for the sake of depriving the grantees by fraud of a part of that grant which had been so madly made by law, Monarchy was not then /the Monarch had not then/ as since to engage in a course of piracy to plunder without previous declaration and with no other disguise than that afforded him by the lawyers by the phrase Droits of Admiralty, join himself to the goodly fellowship of pirates.

When at the disposal of the Monarch, on condition of his acting the part of a pirate < > millions are to be /have been/ obtained by war, can there so long as he is a man be any need of looking a jot any further for the cause of it?

JB_128_231.xml

Title: [1818 Dec. 8. Parl Prin]

Description: 1818 Dec. 8.

Parl

Prin

Beginning

§.1 Misrule when necessary

§.1

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The Monarch in whom does he behold his neighbours /a neighbour/? In the first place

his servants, in the next place his rivals, in no place at all his subjects. /the

people./ He looks to Burke, and asks Who are these? Burke for answer says – the

swinish multitude.

Thus it is that under every throne spring up sources of expenditure {in numbers}

/more than one/ each of which if fed as fast as drained would for its supply suffice

to swallow up the whole substance of the people. Personal luxury, civil official

establishment, military official establishment: these during the whole of his life;

war during the greater half of it. These under every Monarchy: to these, under

English Monarchy add a peculiar dream – peculiar at any rate in degree – distant

dependencies. Imposture declares, ignorance believes, these drains to be sources of

supply. /resources./ Without any exception they are more drains: drains /a drain/ as

surely and incontestably so, as any tax is a drain. /as taxes are./ /every one of

them, as any tax is./ In no one instance /were there any who/ had any[?] one industry

/public spirit/ and […?] Oh for the taste[?], would this proposition fail of being

demonstrated in figures. +

The profit is in the first place to the Monarch, to the Monarch in the shape of food

for pride and vanity, in the shape of matter of patronage, then the next place to his

retainers and worshippers, in the capacity /several capacities/ of members of the

Official Establishment, and individually carrying on giving support to and extracting

profit from a course of unpunishable licensed and unpunishable depredation under the

name of trade. Thus that the one with his courtiers

/retainers/ and worshippers may be comforted, {are not only the 50 or 60 by this time

the 100 million in Asia /Hindostan/, but the 17 million in Europe by and for a small

part of /number by/ whom they are ruled,} are the millions tormented. the millions 17

or 18 of them in Europe, with the 50 or 60 perhaps by this time the 100 in Hindostan

alone: but these, their distance and the colour of their skin scarce worth taking

into the account.

+ See Emancipate Your Colonies.

JB_101_271.xml

Title: [18 Aug. 1814 Logic 7]

Description: 18 Aug. 1814

Logic

7

Ch. Definitio

Church

When an edifice of the holy class has been erected and duly consecrated proportioned to the holiness, the sanctity, the sacredness bestowed upon it in and by its consecration, is the enormity of any offence by which it has been profaned and it sanctity violated.

When again an edifice of the holy class has been erected and duly consecrated, the more sumptuous, the more magnificent, the more lofty, the more admirable, the more venerable the structure, the greater the calamity, the wider the ruin, the more intense the shock arising from its being subverted, the more intolerable the apprehension of the danger of its being subverted: the more intense and implacable the indignation excited towards and pointed against all persons regarded or considered as capable of being the authors or promoters of so shocking a catastrophe.

Already has been seen the advantage derivable and derived by and to the rulers of the Church, themselves being that Church, by the creation of a Church capable of being violated.

Here may now be seen the advantage producible and produced by and to the same rulers of the Church from the creation of a Church, themselves being that Church, capable of being subverted.

By any unholy person is this holy will in any particular opposed, or threatened to be opposed, - that same sacrilegious, unholy, profane, unbelieving infidel, miscreant, reprobate person is already a violater, and, in intention, a subverter of the Church, worthy of all indignation, all horror, all punishment, all vengeance, which it is in the power of any dutiful and worthy son of the Church to contribute to pour down upon his devoted head.

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