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I have heard but two arguments of any weight adduced in favour of passing / this Reform Bill, and they are in substance these: -- 1. We will blow your / brains out if you don't pass it. 2. We will drag you through a horsepond if / you don't pass it; and there is a good deal of force in both.
Talk to me of your pretended crisis! Stuff! A vigorous government would in / one month change all the data for your reasoning. Would you have me believe / that the events of this world are fastened to a revolving cycle with God at / one end and the Devil at the other, and that the Devil is now uppermost! / Are you a Christian, and talk about a crisis in that fatalistic sense!