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  1. Oct 2025
    1. w; iarow what effect disfiess produces, even on people moreintelligent than the great body of the labouring classes can possibly be. we know that it makes even wisemen irritable, unreasonable and credulous; eagJr for immediate relief, heedless of remote consequences ["']that it blunts their judgment, that it inflamesiheir passions, t

      He’s using fear to make his points harder to forget

    2. Save the aristocracy, endangered by its ownunpopular power. Save the greatest, and the fairesi and most highly civilised community that ever existedfrom the calamities which riay in a few days sweep away all the rich heritage of so many ages of wisdomand g1ory.

      There’s a clear position of superiority towards the middle class from the writer. He really doesn’t think anything good from them