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7 March 1817 Plan Cat Introd
7 March 1817

Plan Cat

Introd

§.16.

Conclusion House is fit object of contempt

Impossibility of forcing love confidence respect

For my demonstrations of it, yes: those[?] did Bonaparte

Respect forced from A – b comes[?] d o natural from B. &

C. viz in the way of […?] Judgment[?]. That can not be so

here.

By[?] Bonaparte not only veneration[?] but real respect produced because though a

tyrant it was without meanness and he did some good things

Commons House it has tyranny added its own meanness

I may be forced to say I respect corruption unduly[?], since that[?] I can I really

respect it?

So impossible is it that to any man to whom its Constitution is known and to whom is

its Constitution not known the Commons House should be an object of respect in giving

it the values[?] of respect it calls for there is no […?] other[?] than the language

of servility[?] adulation it will be understood[?] to mean […?]: the greater the

outer demonstration[?] of respect the stronger the evidence of inward contempt

Good. if in the language of Speaker Nickes[?] the documents in which it bears[?] a

part are no more to be regarded than D’some[?] an assembly of dormitory[?]

Porters[?]. In neither[?] case he would no otherwise have regarded it: good[?] for

the state[?] if in other cases it met with no other regard.

By stopping Money Bills Commons House unjust[?] may have th s[?]

dissolve the Government. Ah! if ordered[?] of their betrayers this were in the power

of the betrayed people! Can the first power be approved and the second be condemned?

In addressing the few[?] House it the forces of respect no insincerity

Suppose In an address to the population of a Hulk suppose an eulogy[?] magnifying

their probity, or of a Brothel eulogizing their chastity, in this would there be any

thing of insincerity. make[?] sounds[?] more than written visible[?] representatives

amount to any thing any further than as they are representatives /true pictures

/copies// of the mind.

Luke[?] speaks of a young man /dancer/ who could not d without a certain trunk[?] in

a certain corner of the room could not dance.

Without a lie in his mouth the true lawyer knows not how to speak When to the

insincerity so necessary to the man of law is added the insincerity so natural at

least to the Commons House Veteran, to the population of the Common Laws[?], think

/imagine/ what may be the result!

In From henceforth at any rate when /by/ difference will /can/ Honourable House be

spoken of under any other /better/ character than a cloak (and how thread bare a

cloak it is!) for disposition.

Happy the man who has turned his thoughts to politics!
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