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1818 July 5
Parl. Ref. Bill
Reasons
II. Electors Who
Universality
People after them rulers
Reading
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On looking out for /To the enquiry after/ an endowment which while in respect of appropriate probity it should be better evidence than wealth in any quantity can be, for what in this case /the situation of Representatives at any rate/ does wealth but raise a man into the vortex of temptation, should at the same time in respect of appropriate intellectual aptitude be more direct /less [...?]/ and therefore better evidence than can be afforded by any such sum as that which is received[?] in the character of exclusion evidence, the faculty of reading presented itself.
{Probity of intention being secured by the state of interests by the coincidence of personal with universal interests and action in conformity to such interest and such initiative secured by secrecy, than by security against tyrannical coercion as well as corruption.} For /actual/ intellectual aptitude, instead of a pittance incapable of producing any effect in any way I /let us/ take that endowment which if it be not /though not/ itself the appropriate aptitude, stands at any rate nearer to it than money /does the matter of wealth/ to any amount, and conferrs to /conveys on/ every one who is disposed to employ it the immediate means of requiring this aptitude to any amount and degree that element of appropriate /aggregate/ aptitude. Even this very tract small as it is, will it not do something towards producing so desirable an effect. Will it not do something more than even the Church of England Catechism? Does it not bear rather more closely upon the point upon this particular point than any thing that ever came /has come/ ever from the pen of [...?]?
[Note:] How inferior so [...?] in merit, [...?] being kind to the [...?] inferior in merit genius and in a word in merit.
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Title: [1818 Sept. 26 Parl. Reform Bill]Description: 1818 Sept. 26 Parl. Reform Bill X Reasons 3 o '.2. Electors Who Universality 12 24 To cases indeed there are /One supportable cases indeed there is/ /A case may indeed be imagined/ in which by a deficiency in respect of appropriate intellectual aptitude {and appropriate active talent taken together} /alone/ the set of Electors on the part of whom superiority in point of probity is indisputable, shall in respect /the seat/ of aggregate appropriate aptitude be placed below any other set of Electors: and thus be rendered comparatively or even absolutely incompetent, /unfit,/ {and the other alone fit.} This is the case where /that in which/ on the one part the deficiency in respect of appropriate intellectual aptitude is so entire, /compleat,/ that on the part of a body of Representatives thus chosen the deficiency either in point of intellectual aptitude or in point of active talent would be /is/ so great that by or with them the business of government could /can/ not be carried on. For notwithstanding the compleat absence of appropriate intellectual probity on the part of rulers government is in numerous instances actually carried on, to wit in all despotic states: and any government is better than none. In the same manner a case may also be imagined in which without any such compleat absence of appropriate intellectual aptitude such a deficiency in that point may have place on the one part may when coupled with a certain degree of superiority in point of appropriate intellectual aptitude on the one part renders that set which is superior in point of appropriate probity inferior in point of aggregate appropriate aptitude, to that other which though inferior to it in point of probity is inferior to it in point of intellectual aptitude.
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Title: [1818 July 5 Parl. Ref. Bill]Description: 1818 July 5 Parl. Ref. Bill Reasons II. Electors Who Universality People after them rulers 5 37 Add. 7 Aug[?] 18. Appropriate /necessary/ instruction lies within a very narrow compass. Then this. In this state of things With what colours[?] of reason by the ruling supporters of the system of non-Reform can any deficiency in the element of appropriate intellectual aptitude on the part of the bulk of the people be alledged in support of the exclusionary system? {In any direct way nothing is more notorious nothing more condemnable, any encrease in respect of this /this article/.} By any direct proof no superiority in respect of this element /article/ of appropriate aptitude is so much as attempted or professed to be proved: of its existence in this instance no direct evidence is ever attempted to be produced. Yet evidence of a certain sort is not only produced but most confidently relied on. And this sort of evidence what is it? circumstantial evidence mere circumstantial evidence - and that of a [...?] weak and inconclusive as can easily be conceived. This evidence of what is the matter of it composed? Of the matter of wealth /opulence/. In the matter of wealth they behold the grand efficient cause of the only two elements of appropriate aptitude that come here in question, viz. appropriate probity and appropriate intellectual aptitude. In their account /reasoning/ this pretious matter is the pretended efficient cause and the real substitute for every thing that can be desired. Exactly in proportion to the quantity of money or money's worth that a man has contrived to get into possession of is he not only the better man, but the wiser.
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