18 Sep. 1809 +

Parl y Reform

B. I. Necessity

Ch.18. Mischief of Idol-worship

Ch. Elogiums mischievous

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And is it then true that the whole people of an enlightened country are at once so

weak {and so unjust} as to love each one of them a man and the same man and one of

whom so much better than himself, and so unjust as to love him better than all their

fellow countrymen to the amount of so many millions put together? all this without

any one rational cause, without any one justifying fact the truth of which if it be

true, can have made its way to his knowledge?

True? Not it indeed – what is true is neither more nor less than this – viz that a

tribe of meritless not to say worthless men seeing /beholding each of them/ in this

man either the creater or the preserver of their superfluous ill-deserved prosperity,

present or future, vested or contingent, love[?] /worship/ in his person /the person

of this their living idol/ or rather in his name; each of them himself, careless of

the whole people /millions/ at whose expence this prosperity is /is or is to be/

expected or deserved.