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Corruptionists Emblems

Jewellers

Fish come to a light in the water and are caught in a net [...? ...? ...? ...? ...?].

On one point the two parties are not so widely at variance As to the dress of the baby and the furniture of the baby house they are pretty well agreed. The Monarch has an article of dress belonging to him called a crown: he has an article of furniture belonging to him called a throne. Neither of these implements would be fit for its purpose /use/ had it not a certain splendor, and moreover a certain lustre whatsoever may be the difference /if there be any difference/. Instead of splendor or lustre, if you are an Englishman be careful not to say ”glitter•: if you do the emblem will be spoilt by it: the proof will be unconclusive. This proof may be stiled the ”Jeweller's• proof; this principle the Jeweller's principle Of this proof © of these implements with these their attributes, the rod©of©iron man agrees as to the usefulness nor will he bate one such of them: but as to the needfulness the indispensableness he is not quite so positive and so ardent /it is not his way to lay quite so much stress upon it/ as the Corruptionist is /does/. The less the force the more urgent the need of delusion as well as of corruption.

In what way is it that that these implements with their attributes operate /contribute/ towards the ever necessary and indubitable though /and/ never defined effect © the superlative excellence. Is it by constituting it by causing it to exist? Is it by causing the subject many to believe it exists when it does not, when it is not that quality that exists but its opposite? Be this /that/ as it may, that this delusive quality exists /has place/ in it, to the disgrace and torment /sad affliction/ of the species is as yet but too true. Wherever they see the external instruments of felicity accumulated /heaped/ upon a man /object/ in a large heap, there they fancy they see excellence: excellence moral or intellectual or both together: and in this vitiated state of the /peoples/ visual organ /organs/ on the part of the people do /is the dependence of/ their adversaries of both classes depend for the success of their /the/ imposture

How long will men be gulled, or affect to be gulled, by such impostures.

All the misery that men feel /under which men groan/ in all Monarch©ridden states compared with the felicity which they enjoy in the Anglo©American United States have they any other cause thanÁÁ