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cused, if they, at their age, despair of seeing 

 days as happy as those that they have seen. 



978. It were much better for such people not 

 to emigrate at all; for while they are sure to 

 come into a state of some degree of suffering, 

 they leave behind them the chance of happy 

 days ; and, in my opinion, a certainty of such 

 days. I think it next to impossible for any man 

 of tolerable information to believe, that the pre 

 sent tyranny of the seat-owners can last another 

 two years. As to what change will take place, 

 it would, perhaps, be hard to say: but, that 

 some great change will come is certain; and, it 

 is also certain, that the change must be for the 

 better. Indeed, one of the motives for the emi 

 gration of many is said to be, that they think a 

 convulsion inevitable. Why should such per 

 sons as I am speaking of fear a convulsion? 

 Why should they suppose, that they will suffer 

 by a convulsion ? What have they done to pro 

 voke the rage of the blanketteers? Do they 

 think that their countrymen, all but themselves, 

 will be transformed into prowling wolves ? This 

 is precisely what the Boroughmongers wish 

 them to believe; and, believing it, they flee in 

 stead of remaining to assist to keep the people 

 down, as the Boroughmongers wish them to do. 



979. Being here, however, they, as you say, 

 think only of the good they have left behind 



