1819 July 7

Defence | | Ed g Review

Horne Tooke

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3. Extreme ignorance. This comes under /belongs to/ the head of want of appropriate intellectual aptitude. For excluding appropriate inaptitude in this shape and degree, Horne Tookes recipe extreme opulence affords no direct security: mine does: namely possession of the faculty of reading, proved /established/ by adequate evidence: reading the instrument by which the positive possession opposite to ignorance in every shape is at any time acquirable.

4. Extreme dependence. Of this element of appropriate inaptitude the /to divest/ Croesus to whom the power of the country would under the Monarch with good things of all sorts in his hand have been given by Horne Tooke is more than his plan would perform /accomptable/ one may almost say had towards performing. In the instance of every voter without exception be they ever so many myriads my plan having the ballot in it accomplishes the object to a certainty.

5. Extreme misery. Either this means extreme indigence or it is nothing to the purpose. If it does not mean extreme indigence, it means extreme suffering from any other cause in which case it is nothing to the purpose. But indigence itself is nothing to the purpose, any further than dependence is the effect of it.