1819 May 13

Disfranchising

§.5 Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members

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ones. The faculty of thought /thinking/ being in their minds without exercise, the muscles of their minds are in the state which those of their bodies would be in if kept in continual inaction by ligatures.

Being without motives for exertion except that of which stable and kennel are the source, and the ravaged grounds of the tenantry the field, they loath and disdain experiment, and whatsoever experience /information/ observation chance force upon them is lost to them. They use gunpowder, the most powerful product of chemistry without knowing that there is such a science or such an art as chemistry they tread under four feet at a time the as yet ungathered /unkissed[?]/ hopes of the husbandman without knowing that there is any such art or any such science or any such art as husbandry: they run over heaths /plains/ and mountains without knowing that there is any such science or art as botany, they lame their horses by spurring them over bad roads /roads rendered bad by want of apt material/ and they know not that there is /of there being/ any such science or art as Geology by which if they did, they would have known that apt materials in an unexhaustible[?] quantity have since the deluge been lying /lain/ within a stone’s throw /view/

They know that there is such a science as the science of things unknowable, and such an art as that of knowing them: they know them by seeing as they sit drinking or smoking[?] riding those Churches which are the fruit of such art and science and which afford such comfortable repose to tenants and such excellent ones[?] to younger sons and younger brothers of landlords, they would not know that there was any such Ghost as the Holy Ghost and the means of […?]ness he provides for were it not for the good things he or it showers down upon those who in all solemnity declare that they have received him and are duly filled with him, cages to punish for blasphemy /join with the Lord Sidmouth in raining down punishments/ all those who object to the making any such use of any such Holy

name.