3 Oct r 1809

Parl y Reform

B. I. Necessity

Ch.19. War prevented by Reform

§.1. Popular pacific. 1. Theory

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Upon the King, power operates as a penalty.

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The people have their passions, their occasional unruly /ungovernable/ and seductive

passions, sources of so many occasionally prevalent sinister interests, acting upon

them in such a direction as to be capable of plunging them into unjust and

unnecessary wars.

The people have their passions – their sinister interests: - but the King /Monarch/

has he not less?

Yes: - to all the passions /affections/ and sinister interests to the sinister

action of which the people are exposed he adds others which are peculiar to himself.

To urge /drive/ them into war the people have their dissocial their angry passions –

the passions of the irascible appetite.

But to the same temptations which act upon the irascible appetite not only as the

King /Monarch/ is not only exposed in common with the people – but in his bosom they

find a degree of susceptibility, if perpetually pampered pride be in the case of the

angry passions a source of proportionable susceptibility superior in constancy to any

thing of the sort that is commonly /naturally/ to be found in the bosom of the

people.

But Added to that interest which applies itself to the irascible appetite, the King

and the King alone, I speak of a King of England is constantly instigated to war by a

mass of interest which acting upon /belonging to/ the concupiscible appetite is

peculiar to himself in comparison with and in contradistinction to the people.

The people derive no patronage from war as the King /a King of England/ does: the

people have no plunder to pocket from wars commenced by piracy as a King of England

has: the people are not excused from contribution /contributing/ to war-taxes by any

exemption, such as the King that now is has been advised to give himself.

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