1818 July 28

Parl Reform Bill

Reasons

II. Electors Who

Universality

Reading

Objection Complication

Reading better than hearing.

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Meantime, the sort of instruction thus obtainable /derived/ from conversation - what is it? From conversation in such societies? In comparison of that which from reading would by men of that same description in every other respect be obtainable. Take the worst that could be obtained from reading - compare /it/ with it the best that with any probability not to say that by any possibility be obtained from conversation, what a difference! how prodigious and palpable the inferiority in this latter case!

In the case of printed discourse, strong indeed are the interests the motive by which a man is restrained from the utterance of matter /all discourse/ that does not afford a /very considerable/ prospect more or less considerable of being found fraught if not with grave instruction at any rate with matter which in some shape or other on some account or other, is /shall prove/ more or less interesting. the expence of publishing is a /operates a/ penalty against all worthless publications: a penalty and that but the more efficacious, for the not needing or admitting the hand of law to be employed in laying it.

Bad /Insipid/ indeed must the matter of that pamphlet or flying sheet be which does not contain in it more useful instruction than on the same topic fresher[?] of the field of thought[?] and action would not if got by head afford more instruction than in nine and forty out of fifty such societies would be afforded by a quantity of discourse of the same length thought /composed/ as well as spoken extempore.