18 Jan 1810

Parl y Reform

+ '.3. Note of 3 pages

Note

Ch.18 Sp. ?

'.3. Friendship continued

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Note to Ch. '. p.5 22 or 7(a)

(a) Public spirit - mode of [...?] it.

(a) {a frequent one}

The more numerous /extensive/ the persons /individuals/ are by the care of whose welfare draughts are made upon the social affection, the greater the difficulty which is experienced by moralists and politicians in their endeavours to keep up the supply of it such a supply of it as shall be adequate to the public exigencies /any liberally adequate supply of it./

Hence the need they are under /necessity they are reduced to/ of calling in to the support of it whatever mode can be collected either from the less amiable /other/ affection, viz. the self-regarding and the dissocial, or from the imagination not to speak of that sanction the seat /force/ of which is above /called in /mooted[?]/ from above/.

Hence one advantage sought for, and in so considerable a degree experienced /found/ in the monarchical frame of government: in that frame of government which /sought for and found by those politicians who/, observing with how much greater a facility the social affection attaches itself to /fixes itself upon/ and individual than to an immense and multifarious /miscellaneous/ and mostly unknown multitude - upon a real being visible to the real /naked/ eye than upon a fictitious being such as can not be taken into contemplation by any other eye than the fictitious one of the mind, have set themselves at work to dress up in such /the most attractive/ colours /the most engaging /pleasing/ colours the abstract idea which the person of each individual on whom the title successively devolves is expected and supposed to realize.