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1822 Jany 24

Codification Offer

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?.5. Admission Universal

The English is the Government by which under circumstances peculiarly favorable this concern has been carried on, without need of any peculiar degree of skill, with peculiar felicity and profit: witness the áœá55,000,000 annually shared: the labour of about a hundred millions of human beings in Hindostan having for some time been added to the stock In support of misrule and its attendant miseries, religion is there employed with brilliant success against that morality by which happiness in this life is produced; and law has been brought to that /worked up to such a/ state that in its weakness the people find /behold/ the only cause /circumstance/ by which their condition is distinguished to its advantage from that of the poeple in the worst governed states /communities/.

So vast is the quantity /mass/ of the matter of wealth that has been converted into the matter and instrument of corruptive influence /object /support/ of sinister interest/ and the source and support of sinister influence that by the mere prospect of a share in the particular and sinister interest in the profit of the sinister partnership concern a large proportion capable of amounting to a majority /perhaps not much less than a majority/ are led to contribute each of them to the sacrifice of his share in the universal interest of his own right and proper and exclusively permanent interest: and, by having all along for its support a correspondent body of interest©begotten prejudice, original weakness carefully nursed /nurtured/ by exclusion of mental /intellectual/ culture or application of culture worse than useless together with authority©begotten prejudice growing out of these other sources of delusion, misrule with its attendant miseries is there more firmly seated than in any of those countries in which it is most afflictive.