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1788-1793

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

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deal more I could say, if I was not afraid of your suspecting what I might say in the best faith, to partake of any sort of persiflage."

This letter had the desired effect of calming Bentham. "Since you will be neither subdued nor terrified," he replied, "will you be embraced? Those same seeds you were speaking of have taken such root, that the ground is overrun with them; and there would be no getting them out, were a man to tug and tug his heart out. So Parliament may go to the Devil."[1]

  1. ↑ The correspondence on this subject including Bentham's letter of sixty-one pages is given in his Works, x. 229-245.

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