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[Copyist's hand] 1818 July 28
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1818 July 28

Parl Reform Bill

Reasons

II. Electors Who

Universality

Reading

Objection Complication

Reading better than hearing.

2

2 To the forming of a judgement of any kind by reading and thence from written discourse nothing more is necessary than the temporary possession of the paper in which it is contained. To the forming of any such judgment from conversation it is not easy to say that a multitude of conditions must have been fulfilled. 1. The learner must have been able to find and have found accordingly time sufficient for the receiving instruction in this shape: 2. He must have been fortunate enough to have within his reach a person not only competent in respect of talent to afford Instruction but in respect of other requisites able as well as willing to afford it.

By each man who is at once able and willing to receive this instruction how is such Instructor to be found? Are men thus created and preserved in pairs? Unless they are then in order to obtain any such Instruction, each man must be all along Member of a Society more or less numerous instituted and kept up for this purpose. This Society where shall it meet? Among the Lower Orders viz. in the great bulk of the population several circumstances concurr in preventing each man from receiving others in any such competent number at his own home: In no instance the apartment large enough: few instances the apartment such as it is sufficiently free from disturbance from Children and the various domestic arrangements: the dwellings, such as they are too remote from each other to admit of such {Ministers} /meeting/ the time that might have been employed in reading the whole perhaps of each man's thus disposable time and more will thus if meeting be necessary consumed in Journeys.
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