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31 May 1819
Disfranchising
Disfranchising
§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members
§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members
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Evil 4. Encreasing County Members.
Tendency
of this terrorism to substitute to all casts the | | of Country Gentlemen: of all
casts the most unapt.
2.
1. As to appropriate probity.
To universal interest, interest of this class most uniformly opposite. They are
constantly on the look out for favours for themselves on families on dependents.
3.
Of them is composed the | | Legion Aristocracy: always on its knee to the arch enemy
of the people Monarchy: prepared to sacrifice to it the blood and treasure of the
people whom they hate and despise as much as their fear will let them.
4.
Secure in their | | so in their seats: those seats in which by terrific influence
derived from | | they force the people to place them.
§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members.
5.
2. As to Intellectual aptitude
Extraordinary if any such is found in a Country Gentleman.
6.
Not of “ bullocks” is his talk: but better if it were: then
would it be not for the race they could run, but the money they could fetch: economy
on a small scale is transferable to d o. on the largest in finance
7.
Where his heart, there his thoughts: in kennel and stables, where dogs and horses
are.
By a | | result, by animals more virtuous than ourselves sincere as Whigs and Lawyers
are insincere, we are corrupted: running upon them and after them, continuing savage
while making them tame.
Slaves they produce corresponding Tyranny: producing renewed fatigue and thirst they
produce renewed demand for liquor, and pretence for intoxicating d o. and indolence, and if reading such reading as does not disturb indolence.
§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members.
8.
Mind unexercised is as body would be under ligatures. Without motives for exertion,
save that of which Stable and kennel are the source, and savaged grounds of tenantry
the field, experiment they | | and whatever information experience and observation
force upon them is lost.
9.
1. Gunpowder they use not knowing there is such an art or science as chemistry.
2. The ungathered crop they trample on, ignorant of husbandry.
3. Plains and Mountains they scamper over, ignorant of Botany.
4. Horses they lame by spurring them over bad roads, ignorant of geology which | | a
degree has supplied the best road-making material within reach.
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Title: [1819 May 13 Disfranchising]Description: 1819 May 13 Disfranchising §.5 Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members 3 2 2. In respect of appropriate intellectual aptitude. It is something much beyond what can reasonably be expected, when in any considerable degree any quality that comes under this head is found in possession of your Country Gentleman. His talk indeed is not indeed in the case of the greater number of them “of bullocks”: but it would be so much the better if it were. If it were of bullocks it would be not for any race that they run, but for the money which they can fetch: he would have the difference between pounds and shillings if not the /any such despicable/ difference as that between shillings and pence: he would have this, and thus far he would have progressed in the science and department of finance No not only his talk but his thoughts and his heart will be /is/ sin[?] to me else – where dogs and horses are: in kennels /the kennel/ and in stables. By a singular /sort of paradoxical/ and unhappy contrast. By an unhappy and paradoxical coincidence – dogs and horses, animals more virtuous than ourselves – even if the truth may be spoken, than the two-legged species of us the swinish multitude, innocent in /of all/ intention[?] as they are – sincere as Whigs are insincere (and what can I say more?) – have a sad tendency to corrupt the understanding /minds/ of the /all such/ two-legged animals who live with them who run upon them and after them, and whom while themselves are tame, they continue in the savage state in the state of savagehood. Being themselves slaves they give continual exercise to the corresponding tyranny: producing habitually renewed fatigue they afford a demand and a pretext and a demand for habitually renewed indolence: and for those occupations such as gaming and poetry-reading which except by the seductions which they add, differ not from motionless indolence producing in addition to pretence[?] habitually renewed thirst, they produce an habitually renewed demand for liquors, and pretence for and perhaps the supposition of a demand for the use of intoxicating ones.
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Title: [31 May 1819 Disfranchising]Description: 31 May 1819 Disfranchising Disfranchising §.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members 2 §.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members 10. Of the science of things unknowable, and the art of knowing them they know the existence viz by seeing as they sit drinking or ride | | of such art and science, affording repose to Tenants, and excellent to sons and young brothers of Landlord’s Holy Ghost they knew; but would not but for the good things he showers down on himself stiled Receivers who so eagerly join with Lord Sidmouth and the Suppression Society in punishing as for blasphemous all those who object to the profaning the name. 11. They have heard of natural philosophy: but hate it because Philosophy is Atheism, Reform and Jacobitism; and deny it is natural nothing being less natural than to them to think of it. 12. Mathematics they have no objection to, as long as neither they nor their eldest sons are plagued with it, nor the art and science of put to any use. For it keeps young men out of politics other than those learnt by sitting in House one night, to | | at White’s or Brooke’s. §.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members 13. Greek, on the same conditions they have no objection to: having heard that New testament by means of which Holy Ghost is received and | | bought and sold, was written in it. 14. So Aristotle: having heard he wrote about Logic Ethics Politics Metaphysics and Plays all being useless and serving to keep youths from looking into those politics which swine learn while reading Weekly Newspapers. 15. Observed that they have that to Lord or Ler | | a Squire: seat to Wife or daughter higher. 16. These | | by whom under Scots and Windham’s Romilly’s few good things so consistently opposed. §.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members
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Title: [1819 May 13 Disfranchising]Description: 1819 May 13 Disfranchising §.5 Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members 4 3 ones. The faculty of thought /thinking/ being in their minds without exercise, the muscles of their minds are in the state which those of their bodies would be in if kept in continual inaction by ligatures. Being without motives for exertion except that of which stable and kennel are the source, and the ravaged grounds of the tenantry the field, they loath and disdain experiment, and whatsoever experience /information/ observation chance force upon them is lost to them. They use gunpowder, the most powerful product of chemistry without knowing that there is such a science or such an art as chemistry they tread under four feet at a time the as yet ungathered /unkissed[?]/ hopes of the husbandman without knowing that there is any such art or any such science or any such art as husbandry: they run over heaths /plains/ and mountains without knowing that there is any such science or art as botany, they lame their horses by spurring them over bad roads /roads rendered bad by want of apt material/ and they know not that there is /of there being/ any such science or art as Geology by which if they did, they would have known that apt materials in an unexhaustible[?] quantity have since the deluge been lying /lain/ within a stone’s throw /view/ They know that there is such a science as the science of things unknowable, and such an art as that of knowing them: they know them by seeing as they sit drinking or smoking[?] riding those Churches which are the fruit of such art and science and which afford such comfortable repose to tenants and such excellent ones[?] to younger sons and younger brothers of landlords, they would not know that there was any such Ghost as the Holy Ghost and the means of […?]ness he provides for were it not for the good things he or it showers down upon those who in all solemnity declare that they have received him and are duly filled with him, cages to punish for blasphemy /join with the Lord Sidmouth in raining down punishments/ all those who object to the making any such use of any such Holy name.
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