1818 Sept. 2.

Parl. Reform Bill

Reasons ult o

'.2. Electors Who

Universality

2. Intellect 1. Comparative

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Give a vote to every one, (all votes being supposed free) you have, as above, the greatest possible security that the advancement of the universal interest of the interest of all in the instance of any[?] vote that comes[?] to be given will be the object aimed at: exclude /put an exclusion upon/ any vote or votes from being given, then unless so it be that those whose votes are admitted have no interest separate from and adverse to the interest of those whose votes are excluded, the more you exclude the greater the number of those whom you exclude the greater the danger of those whom you exclude the greater the danger that the interest pursued and endeavoured to be promoted will be some interest less extensive than and adverse to the universal interest.

Appropriate probity being therefore the one thing needful, hence if such were really the case, that in respect of appropriate intellectual aptitude {representative democracy with virtually universal suffrage were ever so decidedly and considerably inferior to} Monarchy and aristocracy respectively were ever so decidedly and considerably superior to representative democracy with virtually universal suffrage still so far from possessing in that same or in any other proportion a /the/ superiority in the aggregate of appropriate aptitude they would not respectively possess any degree of aggregate appropriate aptitude: the greater the quantity of intellectual power, the worse in all points in which the particular and the universal interest were at variance - the worse the government.