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in the Ministry ? would it be discordant for the noise-maker to sit beside 

 the noise-user ? If Bright creates desire, Russell gratifies it. Let them 

 sit side by side, models for future ages to avoid. 



Any skilled lawgiver admitted into Parliament would be a curse to 

 Bright. Without a mob, what is he ? With logic he is abroad. Ignorance 

 and folly is his gain; knowledge and ability his loss. Partially true, 

 imiversally false, he is a god to those who don't work, can't work, and 

 won't work. Education would for ever blast this idolatrous belief, and so 

 he clings to the untaught and undisciplined masses. He and Earl E/ussell 

 agree in abhorring a comprehensive mind which leads, and in holding to 

 the servile mind which implicitly obeys. Both eschew Nature, which has 

 ordained that some men should be tall and others short, some should 

 invent and others be the mechanicians. Both tamper to a universal 

 mediocrity, where no ray of intellectual superiority enlightens. Is not 

 their character shown by their companions ? And do not both partake of 

 the mediocrity they worship ? 



All must admit that there is one large class, hated by Bright and 

 despised by Russell, who consider finality in human legislation impossible, 

 and think that the vote of an elector should be the vote of Intellect, 

 Intelligence, Independence, and Integrity, and who would despise the sale 

 of a franchise by auction, and equally deplore the purchase of individual 

 voters by any Reform Club agency. That class believe that Providence 

 has wisely ordained that many must be ruled, few can be rulers. Bright 

 ignores Providence by subverting natural order and seeking to make tbe 

 governed governors. Russell follows ; and, driven on by a power he is 

 unable to restrain, he goads on that power that he may remain a moving 

 instrument of an ignorant multitude. The true governor leads, and would 

 not be driven without horror and humiliation. Russell must be the tool 

 of the disaffected, or he would be nothing. 



A higher principle over- governing a subordinate ; a universal law 

 overriding a subsidiary ; a comprehensive mind overruling a contracted ; 

 the whole over-regulating a part, are doctrines for Bright to damn, and 

 for Russell to agree with Bright. Bright, however, can never accede to 

 the peerdom of Russell while he remains a commoner, nor can Bright let 

 Russell lead whilst he only follows. Bright as a democratic orator and 

 hater of superiority is great in the way that lovers of order abhor. For 

 Bright to retain his greatness he must deal with littleness, and therefore 

 the auction final Reform would not quite suit Bright, as it might enable 

 Parliament possibly to have members as great to Bright as Bright is to> 

 the imbecile inmates of Earlswood Asylum. 



There are four great diseases before Parliament this year : 1. The 

 rinderpest, or death of cattle ; 2. The cholera pest, or death of mankind 

 both bodily diseases, to be treated after an exact study of Nature's works : 

 3. The Nigger pest white murder by blacks; 4. The Fenian pest the 

 annihilation of social order and religion : both mental epidemics, to be 

 treated after an earnest study of God's moral laws. 



Who shall legislate upon these serious maladies ? Shall they who 

 have bought their parliamentary seats by money, and tampered to the 

 follies of their age ? Or shall they who represent independent, thoughtful 

 voters, and who have studied Nature's works and followed moral laws? 



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