1818 Dec. 23

Parl Reform Bill

Dialogue

Preliminary View

Evils and Remedies

1 Evils

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Anti-Reformist. True. There are Election lies by which reputation is affected. But

there are lies by which nobody’s reputation is affected.

Reformist So there are. But these you will see will find their place among the

characteristic Election evils. +

Anti-Reformist. Well then these evils. How is that you get rid of them? clear your

days of them?

Reformist. That question will be more easily answered when the list of evils has

been gone through with. As in Medicine, so in legislation. First come the

descriptions of the disorders – then the remedies for curing them, then the remedies

for preventing them: first, as medical men say the Nosology, then the Therapeutics,

then the Prophylactics.

+  Here or further on Note the injury done to morality by lies in the way of

example: the […?]. Judicial &c d o.