1819 July 6

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Horne Tookes Plan

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Wild-visionary &c

I will not assume[?] the matter in dispute I will not do one third[?]. I will not follow so sad an example I will not by vituperation /appetite of wages/ assume[?] the matter in dispute. But no epithets that could be employed would be in too great a degree expressive of contempt.

{He is well aware that non-proprietorship is the permanent but most extensively prevalent condition of human nature.}

After having thus put the matter upon this false ground, Horne Tooke as if conscious of its indefensibility makes a show of putting it upon its true ground.

Proper causes of exclusion such as so be in his view he enumerates. 1. Extreme misery. 2. extreme dependence 3. extreme ignorance. 4. extreme selfishness. 5. extreme criminality.

In /Of/ all this taken together a mass of confusion of no ordinary thickness is composed.

Of the five the only ones that are any thing to the purpose are extreme dependence /extreme selfishness/ and extreme ignorance

Amongst all these extremes sad /extreme/ /deplorable/ /conspicuous/ is the want of distinctness and methodicalness here observable. For remedy Let this be the order – 1. extreme selfishness. 2. extreme criminality. 3. extreme ignorance. 4. extreme dependence. 5. extreme misery.

What are we to understand by extreme? In each case, what /where/ is the point at which extremity has place /is to be found/?

1 Extreme selfishness 2. extreme criminality two in so far as they have application to the purpose in question /hand/, these two elements of inaptitude, come under the head of want of appropriate probity. But selfishness – too great a predominance of self-regarding interest, operating too great extent to the exclusion or overpowering of social affection upon the extended scale in question the scale of the whole political community, has place which consists in giving all the power to those who are preeminent in wealth, what does this plan of his do to /towards/ the excluding or checking it? In virtue of secresy of suffrage My plan of it does not exclude the quality itself excludes all ill effects from it. How? /Why?/ by causing a man to have no other self-regarding interest in the matter than his share in the universal interest it renders this selfishness , be it ever so extreme, not only innoxious but beneficial to the whole.