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1820 Feb. 17 Radicalism not dangerous
1820 Feb. 17

Radicalism not dangerous

III Experience

II Ireland.

Radicalism - its origin

Ease

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Ease is another and the last that remains to be […?] of those objects of desire[?] which in a Monarchy as also in an Aristocracy are objects not only of pursuit but of possession but which howsoever ample in pursuit, can but very securely[?] if it will be in possession in a democracy.

In proportion as ease is the accompaniment and sweetener of power that rank[?] and delicious[?] compound[?] is found is the uses of which we have in a cult[?] is sinecures to the Epicurean hives, sinecure /care/ was the […?] /distinguishingly[?]/ attribute of the Gods /Goddess[?]/ themselves. In England[?] and Ireland under the dominion of the […?] God, of whom mention can not be made without blasphemy /of whom much must so continually be said though it can not be said without arbitrarily punishable blasphemy/ it is among the attributes of its most favoured and English[?]-like servants, those in whom the quantity received by them of the Holy Ghost is such as produce the highest state of repletion[?] in these sacred /consecrated/ vessels /receptacles/.

If he has not been belied to me, a Chancellor in Office has been not only heard but in black and white says to have expressed the difficulty /the incapacity he was under/ of conceiving how Justice could be administered /have place/ without the help of that instrument of obstruction which produces 25,000 a year to those who handle it, and which by /from/ the curtesy of the profession has obtained the name of Equity.

An Ex Chancellor if he himself is to be believed would experience a similar if not an equal difficulty, in conceiving how a well-ordered government could subsist /have place/ even[?] as M r Cunas[?] would say with out without that instrument of half[?] suited[?] […?] signified[?] by the name of Sinecure[?].

There remains only to be seen some presumably learned person who should find a correspondent difficulty in conceiving how bodily /physical/ health could have place without the Gout, the sin[?] the Rheumatism[?] or the lubricity-[…?] […?] or confidence.

[Marginal reference:] Bales in Treatise.
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