[clxiv. 186]

1820 June 23

Emancipation Spanish

?. Interests Opposite

Nay say they, but this notion, call it delusion or what else you please is necessary to government: and being necessary to government is necessary to good government, without government there is no security, no continued happiness: this delusion therefore, so far from destructive is necessary to general happiness: in a word to all the /whatever/ happiness man in this life is susceptible of.

Necessary to government? Not it indeed. One single example of a government maintaining its existence maintaining it during a certain length of time, without any such delusion, is sufficient to disprove the assertion of such necessity altogether Look once more to the United States. Look there, and for upwards of these forty years you will see not merely in a single example but by a score of examples going on together, government maintained, and of any such delusion not a vestige in existence. Particular component States from which from the first all such delusion was banished, originally 13, now /already/ 22: a grand cluster of conjunct experiments 13 in number, made /instituted/ in the first instance: that great aggregate experiment succeeding without a single instance or shadow of failure, to this additional experiment after /upon/ experiment continually succeeding and uniform success the result. As to experiment the time of it is passed /past/: in regard to government without delusion, the existence of it, and to all appearance as far as the future can justly be inferred from the past the permanent, nay the perpetual existence of it amply established

In all /every/ other governments in every other imaginable form of government the seeds of decay - of sure decay are visible and manifest; in this form of government of which equality without delusion is the leading principle, no such seeds are to be found.