2 Sep r 1809

Parl y Reform

B. I. Necessity

Ch. 18 Mischief of Idol-worship

§.3. King’s interest. 2. power

Elogiums &c

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2. All praisers praised for praising

3. All punished for praising

In case of parl y reform such praiser would be […?]

Every King is religious: every Vil[?] is pretty.

Note well the mischievousness of these elogiums, note well their absurdity as often

as /if ever/ /should ever/ any attempt is made to form out of such matter an argument

in support of this or that individual measure.

1. The King is a good King; 2 this measure or line of conduct or that which he has

chosen. 3. therefore believe it to be such /consider it as such/, and submitt to it

without opposition, whatever it may be! Of such reasoning what is the practical

result? on the one part despotism on the other part slavery – nothing short of it The

King is a good King: good not this day only nor the next, but every day: so the day

for resistance /opposition/, when then can it come? Not on any day during his life

1. The King is a good King: - may be so. But how do this[?] you[?] know it

2. The King is a good King. Why so? Because every body says so. True: but /in

England. But in France/ does not every body say so, yea and still louder of

Bonaparte?

No. Under such inducements for saying so, so far from being evidence of the thing

itself a man’s saying so is not so much as an evidence of his believing it: any more

than is what a lawyer says from his belief is evidence so much as of his believing it to be true. Be he what he may, so long as there

abuse /are abuses which whether by his will or by his name, and the use made of it he

protects/, he will be a good King and the best of Kings in the eyes of all those who

derive any the least particle of profit from any of those abuses. So many profiters

by abuse so many retained advocates of it and of every thing as well as every person

that contribute or are supposed to contribute to the support of it.