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1820 Feb. 17 Radicalism not dangerous
1820 Feb. 17

Radicalism not dangerous

III. Experience

II. Ireland

Radicalism origin of

3. Factitious dignity

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As to factitious dignity though in every Country it actually /as yet/ has been yet it is not of absolute necessity, effectually attached /associated/ with Monarchy. Not so as to vice, intellectual and moral: on the part of Monarch preeminence of /in/ vice, on the part of his subjects admiration of vice as embodied in his most sacred and religious person. And thus it is that in even Monarchy as rich and most intimately and chemically composed /made up/ of vice and factitious […?] religion, with or without factitious dignity, is essentially to be found.
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