1820 may 25

Emancipation Spanish

'.7. Rulers gainers

'.4. Rulers gainers

4. Power - vengeance

Vengeance supposes antecedent provocation: and provocation naturally leads to the supposition of injury: of undue suffering produced in the breast of one party /the one of two [...?] by the act of the other.

But the desire of producing suffering in the breast of one party may have place in that of another may have place and to a most deplorable extent actually have place, without any thing that can present itself to any one in the shape /under the name/ of injury - of injury done to the other.

If in this case the desire of producing suffering in the breast of another be to be termed vengeance, it must be termed vengeance produced by mere antipathy. It is at any rate a case where a desire of producing suffering in the breast of another is produced by mere antipathy, not produced in the mind of the antipathist by the supposition of any thing which by the antipathist himself could be spoken of as an injury done in any particular way, or as a provocation offered to himself.

To these heads belong the cases of antipathy on the score of taste, antipathy on the score of opinion and in particular antipathy on the score of opinion on the subjects of government and religion.

Of all modification /grounds/ of antipathy that which has difference of opinion on the subject of religion is the most important and the most transcendently mischievous and formidable. Be the provocation what it may vengeance on the score of personal provocation admitts of atonement, and through atonement the desire admitts of extinction, and the disagreement /[...?]/ of reconciliation. Antipathy on the score of religion admitts of no atonement, of no reconciliation. This placability which in other cases would be admitted to be a merit, would /is/ in this case be regarded and spoken of as a crime.