21 Dec r 1809

Parl y Reform

2 Influence

Ch.3. Dependence Modes?

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To preserve so convenient a state of things from the attacks of the innovator, either of two systems serves.

One is, that of the optimist: in the language /words/ of Pope as applied to universals, whatever is is right: or in the language /words/ of Blackstone as applied to particulars - everything is as it should be.

The other is the system of the lacrymist or say of the pessimist - of the hypocondriac, or that other sort of man whose name begins with hypo. Bad indeed it is, most deplorably /lamentably/ bad: but it can't be otherwise: it is among the fruits of original sin, and comes of the unfortunate longing our /the/ universal grandmother was served with for the unwholesome apple.

Hint at /Speak of/ the plain an simple and old-accustomed and constitutional remedy: dependence of agents for their situation on their principals - dependence secured by annual elections /re-elections. Annual Parliaments yielded /conceded/ so often to manly subjects /our sturdy ancestors/ by too[?] conquering Kings. - Oh but those can[?] Jacobins anarchists French Revolutionists - enemies to social order and our holy religion: finds, begotten upon the Goddess of Reason by the father of lies . /tempter of Eve./