1819 Jan y 2

Parl. Reform Bill

Dialogue

Preliminary View

Evils & Remedies

II Remedies

Miselection

Electors

15

10

Reformist Consider a little you will find, if I am not mistaken, that you have not

much bettered yourself by refusal /your refusal/ the proffered allowance of devils.

In the first place see now what you have to prove: viz. that worth, in the sense in which it means wealth, is

either the same thing with, or that it is with adequate constancy accompanied with

/it is attended by/, worth in the sense in which it

includes probity. appropriate

probity. In the next place see what you have to do /discover/: you have to draw a

precise line between your angels and your devils: you have to discover what quantity

of this worth in the one sense is necessary and sufficient to constitute relatively

adequate worth in the other sense. {You have in a word to draw the line between your

angels and your devils.} Taking for example the present statutable allowance, 40 s a year constitutes your angel; this being admitted what you have

to prove is – that by taking, from those same 40 s, the sum of one

farthing, your angel is transfigured into a devil his goose-wings changed into bats’

wings.