1819 Dec r. 5

Bentham’s Radical

Prelim

II. Necessity

Utopian &c

4

What simpleton has there ever been more silly, than the men who not only are in the constant […?] indulge themselves in this sort of lines sort of language but ground all their measure upon the assumption of the truth of it, would be were there a grain[?] of […?] among them, be all be. But among them there is no such silliness: to assert it of them would be calumny Not one of them so ignorant as not to know himself, and that fully for which he is not to know not only what he himself is but to what the idol is, upon that he himself may […?] in for his share of the worship to worship. (a)

Note (a)

(a) If among the vendors of blasphemy some of the most mischievous was to be punished, the vendors of Blackstone’s Commentaries[?] would be thus punished. plus[?] If to ascribe to man the attributes of Almighty God to blasphemy, the Power of blasphemy was that Blackstone for to the King of England to every King of England he ascribes in so many words the attributes of Almighty God, and page after page, calls upon subjects to worship him as such.