1820. Octr 19 Spanish liberticide measures 15 Letter 2. Public Discussion 15

To the keeping up this disposition to eventual resistance partly by instruction

partly by excitation, the unrestrained communication of all ideas belonging to

the field of government is necessary. It is therefore the characteristic of an

undespotic government to give not only toleration but favour to such

unrestrained communication: and this with a view not only to instruction but

excitation: for without correspondent excitation all the instruction imaginable

would not be productive of any effect. Instruction applies to the understanding;

excitation to the will: both must be in a suitable state or no effect can be

produced.

In /Of/ popular meetings various sorts or modifications might in this view be

distinguished: instruction and excitation can not in any case be altogether

separated: of every such meeting it is the tendency to be in some degree or

other conducive /contributory/ to both those effects: some however are in a

greater degree /more particularly/ conducive to the one of these two instruments

of political security, others to the other.

A meeting in an open space /and unlimited space such as an unenclosed field/ is

more particularly conducive /suitable/ to excitation than to instruction: a

meeting within a limited space such as a room public or private is more

conducive /suitable/ to instruction than to excitation.

A meeting open to all /once for all/ without distinction, or even to all who at

each time pay a small sum for admittance, is more suitable to the purpose of

excitation than to that of instruction: a meeting held as one of a fixt and

permanent series of meetings is more suitable to the purpose of instruction than

excitation. A select meeting or meeting of a Society with which in addition to

those by whom it was first formed none are admitted but by election is more

suitable to the purpose of instruction than of excitation: in regard to

excitation it is more suitable to the purpose of maintaining a constant and

ordinary degree, than any such extraordinary degree as on extraordinary

occasions may become necessary to the proposed end.