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1822 Jany 24

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For some time after a Revolution, while the sharers /those who have obtained shares/ in the new government feel themselves still exposed to those dangers /sufferings/ from which they have but so recently made their escape they /men/ will with more or less acquiescence /reluctance/ submitt to forego /sacrifice/ a portion of the sweets of government for the purchase of that security in the benefit of which they can not prevent the subject many from being partakers: and to the sense of this necessity in all breasts, added to a feeling of sympathy for the people at large in the quality of fellow sufferers and fellow labourers in a few privileged /superiorly constituted/ breasts, is to be attributed what difference there is between the condition of the subject many before and afterwards before the Revolution and after it. But sooner or later and at any rate at the end of no great length of time, the sympathy /social feeling /spirit// evaporates, the provocation given by refractoriness substitutes antipathy to it /puts antipathy into its place/, apprehension of danger from above subsides, the need of that security which is afforded by the voluntary attachment of the people is no longer felt the peace by community of interest is established between the quondam sole and universal oppressor on one part /peace with the quondam enemy is gradually established/ Between the quondam sole ruler and his new associates hostility is discarded, partnership is established, just as so often seen to have place /upon a pattern so often seen copied/ between competitors in trade: to neither is the greatest danger if there be any danger /if there be any danger at all/ from the other: each regards /views/ in an /beholds in the resentment of the/ oppressed people the /his/ only source of danger: of a people, formerly kept under the yoke /in a state of passive obedience/ by dependency: now of late more or accustomed to active resistance by that those [...?] invitations/ which could not but be given to them: and thus to the old yoke the neck of the people feels substituted a new one which in compensation for what it has lost in /though it has lost more or less in/ weight and immediate afflictiveness, has gained in strength and permanence