6 Sep. 1809 + '.2

Parl y Reform

'.2 Uncorruption self-meliorative

B.III. Influence &c

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'.2. Under the system of uncorruption every thing tends /things tend[?]/ to grow better and better.

So much for the principle and system of corruption. Now for the principle and system of incorruption. Where is the harm in it?

If in corruption there be any thing bad and dangerous, and by those who insisting on the admitting of it admitt the limitation of it this can not very easily be desired[?] of a corruption than to any thing bad and dangerous - it is a property (it has been seen) of the system of corruption of every system which for its continuance or its action depends upon corruption to be growing worse and worse.

Under this system the great objection is that the people will have their own way: and though it be only about their own business that they will have their own way, yet this is what they ought not to have, seeing that they are not fit for it.

But why not fit for it?

Is it that they will pursue a wrong interest? and in so doing act a dishonest part?

This is exactly what is impossible. If all interests are compared without which the system of representation is neither what it ought to be nor what it is intended to be all that each man has to do is to pursue his own interest, his own particular interest if he has any and if he pleases, then in the second place or in default of particular interest general and public interest, {this[?]} or what to him appears such /he takes to be so/.

But in so doing in dishonest part does he /do they/ take but in honest one[?]. Take this or that individual his interest and his duty may be but too widely different. Take all individuals in the aggregate their duty and their interest are exactly the same thing. It is their duty to pursue their interest: pursuing their interest they thereby /in so far/ fulfill their duty.

[Marginal note:] Semper eadem