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His condition leaves him no time to receive the necessary

information, and his education and habits are commonly such as to

render him unfit to judge, even though he was fully informed. In

the public deliberations, therefore, his voice is little heard,

and less regarded; except upon particular occasions, when his

clamour is animated, set on, and supported by his employers, not

for his, but their own particular purposes.