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12 of judgment," and becoming the mere "servile mouthpieces of their inferiors in knowledge"?

In your "Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform," which was published in 1859, you made a remark, with reference to the corrupting influence of the ballot on national morality, which, as it bears upon this point, I shall take the liberty of quoting:—

This was your sober and well-matured opinion, in 1859, when you were a writer of books." What your opinion may be