1818 July 5

Parl. Ref. Bill

Reasons

II. Electors Who

Universality

People after them rulers

Reading

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On looking out for /To the enquiry after/ an endowment which while in respect of appropriate probity it should be better evidence than wealth in any quantity can be, for what in this case /the situation of Representatives at any rate/ does wealth but raise a man into the vortex of temptation, should at the same time in respect of appropriate intellectual aptitude be more direct /less [...?]/ and therefore better evidence than can be afforded by any such sum as that which is received[?] in the character of exclusion evidence, the faculty of reading presented itself.

{Probity of intention being secured by the state of interests by the coincidence of personal with universal interests and action in conformity to such interest and such initiative secured by secrecy, than by security against tyrannical coercion as well as corruption.} For /actual/ intellectual aptitude, instead of a pittance incapable of producing any effect in any way I /let us/ take that endowment which if it be not /though not/ itself the appropriate aptitude, stands at any rate nearer to it than money /does the matter of wealth/ to any amount, and conferrs to /conveys on/ every one who is disposed to employ it the immediate means of requiring this aptitude to any amount and degree that element of appropriate /aggregate/ aptitude. Even this very tract small as it is, will it not do something towards producing so desirable an effect. Will it not do something more than even the Church of England Catechism? Does it not bear rather more closely upon the point upon this particular point than any thing that ever came /has come/ ever from the pen of [...?]?

[Note:] How inferior so [...?] in merit, [...?] being kind to the [...?] inferior in merit genius and in a word in merit.