On the English Reform Bill

[p. 555]

In France always novi homines – in the most recent revolution Odilon, Baude etc., – ministers, without [being] statesmen, hommes d’Etat, of the Chambers. Nothing easier than principes, – not beyond these, always the universal, thereby always driven to governing. Only the governing changes when they are ministers, – in England not (except perhaps the savings).

The same practical concrete sense already among members of Parliament of the opposition – not abstract theories.

The hounding for the Minist. gives such interests to those who always have the universal in their heads (unconsciously?).

Political economy [has] made progress, the abstract freedom of trade-

– everything done, i.e. the government [has] given up [interfering,] yet inconsistently; – compelled to care for the poor (in England a branch of state administration).

– comes under cover from another side, in a more dreadful manner, more hideous shape, to which it [the government has] let it come: extreme distress, fury and brutality of this distress, like the whole Irish population.

Thereby before Rel[igion] – moral culture, reading and writing, all the habits of discipline.

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