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[clxiv. 81] 1820 May 29 Emancipation
[clxiv. 81]

1820 May 29

Emancipation Spanish

Nay (it may be said) but they have a common interest. It is the interest of all that all together, they should have /obtain//possess/ in their hands and enjoy these same instruments to as great an amount on the whole as possible.

It is therefore not only the interest of the subject many that they the subject many should obtain possess and enjoy these same instruments as possible, it is moreover the interest of their rulers /the ruling few/ that those their subjects should have possess and enjoy those same instruments to as great an amount as possible. They have therefore with them one common interest.

True: they have with them one common interest. But in which sense? and in what proportion? and to what effect? In the same sense, in the same proportion and to the same effect, as those who in any character or capacity exercise depredation have one common interest with those on whom they exercise it.

It is the interest of highwaymen that the quantity of wealth in the possession of the travellers who frequent the road on which those same highwaymen /punishable depredators/ exercise their profession should at all times be as great as possible. But by this interest those same professional men are nor precluded /barred/ from the exercise of such their profession but excited to it.

It is in the interest of lawyers that the quantity
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