1820 Feb. 19

Radicalism not dangerous

III. Experience

II. Ireland

Radicalism - its origin 3

3 Factitious dignity

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Take this then for a /one/ universal rule - The more power a man has the worse is the use which he is disposed and likely to make of it.

Take this then for another. The man who has power the more money he has along with it the more power he has in that /this/ other shape and therefore the more money he has with his power the worse is the use which he is likely say rather which he is sure to make of both.

As it is in the highest so is it in each inferior sphere. The more a man has of this compound /[…?] political froth /whipt syllabub// the worse it is for himself in one sense, and for the whole nation /people/ he belongs to in another.

thus It is a truth that will bear sifting that will stand examination.

Apply it to these joint-manufacturers of Statute law - the Lords: the Lord whose seat is in that House of which whatsoever the nature be the title is said by God-given will […?] be Right Honourable.

Apply it to those sole manufacturers of Common Law the Judges of this land - those revered persons who all of them in number equal some of them in sanctity emulate the Apostles: men who - such is the power of royal wax - turn from indiscriminating defenders of right and every[?] been transfigured into lovers and dispensers of the purest virtue: and when the constitution and give effect to a system of persecution require no more than trust & drew[?] words said have been said by one of them: to […?] to it the powers of these dependent instances[?] of the Monarch, & that of the Monarch himself, fortified /strengthened/ by that of his Lords and that of his Commons.

Apply it to the Lords Temporal: In majorem gentium[?] those potentates whose attribute is honour emanating from the seat of […?] Godship. Behold it rising in stages pyramid wise one above another lessening in extent encreasing in honour till it rises till at its highest stage it is raised to such a pitch of purity and perfection that royalty itself does not disdain to mix with it.