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[clxiv. 167]
1820 June 22
Emancipation Spanish
?. Interests opposite?
King worst not best.
F. King, not the best man, but the worst.
All Geography - all History all reasoning deduced from both shews /All History and all Geography concurr in shewing it/ - that the more extensive and uncontrouled a mans power is, the less is his sympathy for other men in general, especially for those who are most immediately subject to such his power, and the more intense and unbridled and exclusive his regard for self for his self-regarding interest. If then by /to the word/ excellence is attached any such meaning as that of the existence of regard for the happiness of others in a larger proportion to regard for self that is commonly found in human breasts, the very last situation in a Monarchy to which it ought in reason to be ascribed is that of the Monarch himself: in that of day-labourer, pauper, or even criminal, in respect of almost any crime would /might/ it with more reason be expected to be found.
In the history of Rome under the Emperors, history presents us with a set of men who with here and there an exception, at least as to degree present /afford/ the most striking exemplification of any we are familiar with of depravity in that shape in which it stands most exactly opposite to excellence as above explained To cut the matter short they are not uncommonly denoted by some mark of strong and unmeasured mark of vituperation /condemnation and abhorrence/ such as is contained in the word monsters. But among the Monarchs /of the Monarchies/ of Asia in general monstrosity not inferior has in all times and places been the predominant character. Of this The style in which the intercourse between them and their subjects is carried on affords of itself sufficient
evidence.
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Title: [[clxiv. 176] 1820 June 22 Emancipation]Description: [clxiv. 176] 1820 June 22 Emancipation Spanish ?. Interests opposite King worst not best Let it never be forgotten that for every morsel of the bread of felicity which the most excellent of miserable sinners crams into his mouth without being able to swallow it men not thus excellent some are kept from coming into existence, others are driven out of it: in what proportion has not yet been calculated: but the instruction given by the calculation would be well worth the trouble. Turn upon this occasion, as upon every other, to the United States. There are no such self-proclaimed miserable sinners dragging themselves to the place /of proclamation/ where they are proclaimed such, some for fear of being punished for not going there some for what they get by going there, others to gossip and look about them: there is no such thing to be seen as manufactured excellence, manufactured out of glittering stones, and wool, and the residuum of putrified vegetables and the excrement of worms, and the bows and cringes of titled sycophants prostrate in will and that with the less uneasiness they may be so, prostrate in understanding before the footstool from which the matter /external instruments of felicity converted into matter/ of corruption are distributed in all their forms.
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Title: [[clxiv. 206] 1820 June 27 Emancipation]Description: [clxiv. 206] 1820 June 27 Emancipation Spanish ?.8. Corruptive influence Edulcoratives 1. Publicity. 2 Numerousness Why in France and in England Monarchs tolerate Assemblies instead of Manchestering them. Well but (say you) - all this while have not discourses and even in writing replete with all these criminal tendencies been circulating - been circulating with the most unbounded licence? You yourself /even you/ are you not a living witness of the groundlessness of these very complaints of yours - by what Jury Special or Common have you been convicted - by what Magistrate committed, by what Attorney General prosecuted. True: the time of every man who has any feeling for his fellow men - among the rest the time of the insignificant individual who is [...?] addressing you is not yet come. Not by Tiberius, not by Nero not by any of the monsters in human shape called Emperors was every man destroyed by whom discontent or disaffection was betrayed. But when among the supporters /those who have raised voice or pen in support/ of uncorruption and reform you have thought of those who have suffered, think whether among those who have thus offended there be that human being who under the men by whom we are governed may not look for his own turn to come tomorrow. Burdet, Wolsely notwithstanding or such by reason of their baronetage Hobhouse notwithstanding or by reason of his having been of the few etc have not the scourge of political martyrdom been already upon them after this how much longer can I how much longer can any body hope to escape? As yet I have been saved /left unmolested/ partly by my insignificance partly perhaps by other considerations which common prudence forbids me to bring to view. But am not I too already a sufferer? a man to whose breast all sense of security has for years past been a stranger is he not a sufferer? Burdet, Wolseley Hobhouse, Cartwright Hunt /Hunt/ Cobbet Hone
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