1818 July 28 +. '.2.

Reasons

'.2. Electors Who

'.3. [...?] [...?]

Universality

Reading

Objection Complication[?]

Reading better than hearing.

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{4. No ideas can be fixt by one discourse without reading

6. Complication new: viz. in the mode /form/ of law proposed.

7. Nicks verse - evasion practicable in that case - not in this

9. Establishment without instruction: instruction without establishment. And where are Establishment Waste [...?]}

{Against the admission this proposed qualification I have had occasion to observe symptoms of reluctance: my endeavours to collect specific grounds for this reluctance have not been very successful.}

Objection Respecting the appropriate aptitude of a proposed {member} /voter/ all you insist upon it has been said to me as a derivative judgment. But on this subject a judgment of this sort is not incapable of being formed on the ground of conversation alone and without reading. The conclusion is - reading /the faculty/ is not necessary.

Answer. True it is that, in a certain way to form in relation to the subject in question a judgment of the derivative kind, on the ground of conversation alone and without reading, is not impossible. For a further concession, add, no nor even a self-formed Judgement. But he whose means are in relation to both /these modes /sources/ of/ judgments confined to conversation alone, is he in respect of appropriate aptitude altogether upon a par with him who is in possession of both? No, surely: if not then so it /the conclusion/ is that by this observation no sufficient argument against the qualification in question is opposed: opposed, or can be unless from the requisition of this qualification some specific evil can be shown to be produced: some specific evil, and that, in relation to the benefits, collateral as well as direct, attached to this same qualification /endowment/, a preponderant one.