JB_139_219.xml

Title: [1817 Sept. 10 Not Paul Introd]

Description: 1817 Sept. 10

Not Paul

Introd.

In the common way in which, among religionists of different sects and parties, the persons, acts and events in question have commonly been considered, the actors are any thing but human creatures: the world they are considered as moving /are represented as moving/ in is a purely ideal one.

Throughout the whole course of the present examination, the men in question will, all of them be alike considered as occupied /actuated/ by human interests, influenced by human desires, actuated by human motives - occupied influenced actuated by such interests desires and motives as all men are actuated by in general are actuated by.

In those books of fables in which under the name of fable are or at least have been in use to be, put into the hands of children the actors /characters/ are human creatures /beings/ with /[…?]/ the names of animals attached to them.

In the interpretation put upon the books /discourses/ here in question, the characters are a set of beings any thing rather than /not any thing but/ human, to which the names of men are attached with nothing human belonging /left/ to them but their names.

As to these appellations and epithets, by the use of which every thing that is undertaken to be proved is from first to last assumed - words of vague and ungrounded laudation distributed /applied/ on one side, vague and ungrounded vituperation on the other, they will be left to those who from weakness can not, or from disingenuousness will not, forbear to discredit and betray by the use of the instruments of falshood /deceit/ the cause of truth.

074_495.xml

Title: [4 Oct 1803 Evidence Judicature]

Description: 4 Oct 1803

Evidence

Judicature

Anonymous

5. Sympathy towards the individual[?] delinquent - the smuggler on whose head the tendency of the information is to bring down punishment. Under the name /appellation/ of smuggler must for this purpose be understood not merely the habitual and professional smuggler but every individual whatever who, lying on any score under the legal obligation of saying furnishing contributions to the use of the public, seeks to evade the fulfillment of it.

If on the one hand the restrictive motive the tendency of which is to restrain a man in such a case from giving open information are in this case more than ordinarily powerful /act in more than ordinary force/, on the other hand, in such stuff as the great majority of individual minds are composed of, the action of the inciting motives is more than ordinarily weak. These are 1. Public spirit. 2. Pecuniary interest in the part of the fair trader, who in respect of his traffic finds a competitor in the person of the smuggler. 3. Sympathy for the prejudices /Fair trader in respect of the damage/ flowing in upon him from that source.

1. Public spirit. In combination with party enmity this principle is found in great abundance: in combination with national enmity in still greater. In the latter state it is found among all classes from the highest down to the very lowest from the least to the most numerous. A combination with love of power and /or/ love of reputation, or both together it is in certain countries /nations/ the leading countries /nations/ in particular such as France and England, among certain classes, over the leading classes by no means rare. But like every other down, love of power and love of reputation require a certain prospect of success: and it is only to certain classes, and in those classes to certain individuals that ny prospect of this kind lies open, in such sort as to operate in the character of a principle of action with any considerate force. In the physical world, gold is said to be by no means an uncommon element though except in a few favoured spots broke down into particles of such [...?] /smallness/ /scarcity/ and dispersion as to be of no commercial value. In the moral world, public spirit in a state perfectly pure, free from any of the combinations above spoken of, is much more rare than gold in the physical wold, and moreover when it does exist exists in particles of such [...?] [...?], as seldom indeed not to be capable in the character of of outweighing an existing motive the lightest article on the abovementioned list of restraining motives.

JB_127_109.xml

Title: [13 July 1810 Parl. Reform Plan]

Description: 13 July 1810

Parl. Reform Plan

Ch. (last) State of Interests

'.1.

3

On the part of the higher orders what in proportion to the efficiency and utility of the measure they would have to lose by it, being thoroughly felt and understood, opposition to it to the utmost of their power is no more than which from them ought, in common sense to be expected.

Such then is the struggle of the opposition against /in/ which those whose interest or wish it is that the measure shall take effect ought to be prepared.

If there were any adequate assurance of their being prepared of themselves, this or any other expedient /exertion/ employed /used[?]/, or the view of preparing them would be unnecessary.

But the more thoroughly understood and acutely felt the sinister interest that acts /acting/ in opposition to them will be, the more carefully will it be endeavoured to be concealed. The supposed interest of the whole will be the only interest avowed /on that side/ and brought to view the interest by which their opponents will avow their being actuated[?] or acknowledge their having at heart: and forasmuch as in support of this sinister interest the whole artillery of fallacy will of course be brought up and played up to the utmost advantage, it will require a clearer insight into the subject than seems as yet to have become general to make a man to resist the force of /cause[?] of/ the illusion, and behold in its true stamp and strength the force against which he has to combat. /fight./

[Side note:] that the strongest and most splendid talents that are to be had for money or money's worth can give to it