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1820 Feb. 17 Radicalism not dangerous
1820 Feb. 17

Radicalism not dangerous

III. Experience

II. Ireland

Radicalism origin of

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If sincerity be a branch of moral worth and good sense a branch of intellectual worth, only at the expence of intellectual and moral worth on the part of the people in their character of subject can either /regard either to/ Monarchy or aristocracy have place.

In a Monarch according to the truth of things the Monarch is not morally[?] no better /no better a character/ than the day labourer but almost to a certainty a much less good - and in truth a positively bad one. Yet in a Monarchy what is the universal talk and even the almost universal notion? This notion does a man really embrace it? it is at the expence of his good sense, in so far as he embraces it, his good sense leaves him. The notion really entertained by him in relation to it does it fall short in any degree of that which is presented by his discourse? in proportion to the deficiency his sincerity leaves him. A peoples Monarchy can not have existence. Be the nation what it will so long as it has any such characters in it as a Monarch it is a nation composed /it is composed/ - composed though in infinitely diversified and unascertainable proportions it is a nation of dupes and sycophants.

The youth whose object is in Gods own good time to sell himself /his services/ at as dear a rate as he can, in the first place to the malefactor or the prosecutor /injurer or the injured/ which comes first /whichever is first to have been/ then to the Monarch and his Ministers - the high bred University youth reads Tacitus {with or without his tutor} because of his own accord filled with contempt by the servility of a Roman […?] to a Roman Emperor, and with horror unless his Tutor has been neglectful, at the blasphemy of those /the miscreants/ by whom he was raised to the dignity of the Godhead to be a rival of the triune and only God.
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    What /That which/ never can be proved is that by the money thus expended or any the least particular of it the condition of the people is in any degree improved that it is not necessary to the keeping the condition of the people from growing worse. But that which […?] to view[?] - seen by any man and without the pains of its being proved to him is that it is necessary - not only conducive but necessary to his keeping up the notion the delusive and pernicious notion of the existence of the indefinable quality called excellence in the possession of the individual in whom is invested the […?] as well as the power of being to so vast an amount an instrument of mischief /suffering/ to the people without any thing in his situation to restrain him from becoming so, in so much as applying any official check to the amount /quantity/ of that disastrous produce.

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    Take this then for a /one/ universal rule - The more power a man has the worse is the use which he is disposed and likely to make of it.

    Take this then for another. The man who has power the more money he has along with it the more power he has in that /this/ other shape and therefore the more money he has with his power the worse is the use which he is likely say rather which he is sure to make of both.

    As it is in the highest so is it in each inferior sphere. The more a man has of this compound /[…?] political froth /whipt syllabub// the worse it is for himself in one sense, and for the whole nation /people/ he belongs to in another.

    thus It is a truth that will bear sifting that will stand examination.

    Apply it to these joint-manufacturers of Statute law - the Lords: the Lord whose seat is in that House of which whatsoever the nature be the title is said by God-given will […?] be Right Honourable.

    Apply it to those sole manufacturers of Common Law the Judges of this land - those revered persons who all of them in number equal some of them in sanctity emulate the Apostles: men who - such is the power of royal wax - turn from indiscriminating defenders of right and every[?] been transfigured into lovers and dispensers of the purest virtue: and when the constitution and give effect to a system of persecution require no more than trust & drew[?] words said have been said by one of them: to […?] to it the powers of these dependent instances[?] of the Monarch, & that of the Monarch himself, fortified /strengthened/ by that of his Lords and that of his Commons.

    Apply it to the Lords Temporal: In majorem gentium[?] those potentates whose attribute is honour emanating from the seat of […?] Godship. Behold it rising in stages pyramid wise one above another lessening in extent encreasing in honour till it rises till at its highest stage it is raised to such a pitch of purity and perfection that royalty itself does not disdain to mix with it.