1819 July 9

To Erskine

ult o

Lett. 6. E. AntiReformist

§ 7. § 5. Petitions rely on

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But no: what Your Lordship means is not the inward sentiment – it is the outward and visible sign and nothing more that in such a sense Your Lordship or any man in Your Lordships situation /place/ can mean – that and nothing more. That which can always be forced is the outward sign: that which can never be forced is the inward sentiment: even supposing that before the force was applied the inward sentiment had place, the force is sufficient and is sure to expel it. {Respect or esteem mixt with more or less of fear: though of fear a slight and not commonly perceptible dash may be sufficient:} when force is the instrument employed {the} fear may be magnified to any amount: but {the} esteem is banished. By tyrants in general – even by Honourable House in particular, though, Honourable House is so far from being a tyrant, wherefore there is the outward and visible sign so constantly and unconcernedly as we see, freed? because by the fear which is all that remains of the inward sentiment the fear manifested by him from whom the outward sign is extorted, correspondent fear, is extorted from others: correspondent fear and those /that/ submissions which are the fruit of it.