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[xxxvi. 25] 1821. April 25
[xxxvi. 25]

1821. April 25

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Constitutional Finance

In a limited Monarchy, the Financial Department has for its actual end the opposite of frugality, waste - the maximum of waste.

In this species /Under this form/ of Government, this waste has three objects:

1. Personal gratification to the several appetites of the ruling one and the sub-ruling influential and opulent few. This object, in so far as regards the appetites of the ruling one, it has in common with absolute monarchy.

2. Corruption: exercise of corruptive influence for the purpose of securing corrupt obsequiousness on the part of those whose declared duty, and professed endeavour it is, to keep applied to the respective powers of the Monarch and the sub-ruling portion of the Aristocracy those limitations which they respectively acknowledge: corrupt obsequiousness to the effect of causing them to forbear the keeping actually applied those several limitations, thus rendering the Government in form and pretence limited; in effect to the benefit of the ruling one, and the sub-ruling the influential, and the opulent few, and to the sacrifice of the greatest happiness of the greatest number, absolute.

3. Delusion. In /To/ so far as the waste applies /employs/ itself, by means of corruptive influence, to the production of corrupt obsequiousness, on the part of those self-acknowledged and self-professed trustees for the whole community, it employs itself in rendering them, and, in so far as it produces its intended effect, it actually does render them, by so much inferior, in respect of public virtue and good behaviour - in respect of benevolence, and that beneficence which is the fruit of benevolence upon the most extended /largest/ scale, inferior to the rest of the community taken at large - inferior to the subject many - inferior to the vast majority of the whole population of the country. In the same proportion as those in whom /on whose part/ corrupt obsequiousness is produced, are rendered inferior in these respects, those by whose corruptive influence this corrupt obsequiousness is produced, are rendered, in at least an equal degre, inferior,

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    III. Delusion. It remains to be shown how it is that, by one and the same quantity of the matter of wealth consumed in waste - wsted in the vain endeavour to inject an additional quantity of happiness into a receptacle over and over again disabled from the capacity of receiving any more - how, by this same quantity of wealth, in addition to the purpose of producing corrupt obsequiousness, the purpose of producing delusion is but too effectually and intensively accomplished.

    In the case where production of corrupt obsequiousness was the object, the persons on /over/ /to/ whom the operation was performed were the sub-ruling influential and opulent few, with no other addition than that of that comparatively small portion of the subect many, to the effect of producing correspondent corrupt obsequiousness. the corruptive influence of those their superiors could be extended /applied/. In the case of delusion, the persons, on whom the operation is performed / in whose instance/ on whom/ the effect is endeavoured to be produced, are, in adition to the sub ruling, the influential and the opulent few - (for these are not less exposed to, nor less susceptible of, the delusion than the many) - the subject many likewise: in a word, the whole of the community without exception - the Royal Chief /Head/ himself, by whom the benefit /profit/ of the delusion was reapedin the greatest abundance, not excepted.

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  • Title: [1821. April 24. III. Delusion. It]
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    III. Delusion. It remains to be shown how it is that, byone

    and the same quantity of the matter of wealth consumed in waste -

    wasted in the main endeavour to inject an additional quantity of

    happiness into a receptacle over and over again disabled from the capacity

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    the object, the persons on whom the operation was performed were the

    sub-ruling influential and opulent few, with no other addition than

    that of that comparatively small portion of the subject many, to whom the corruptive influence

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    of those their superiors could be extended. applied In the ease of delusion, the

    person, in whose instance on whom the effect is endeavoured

    to be produced, are, in addition to the subruling, the influential and

    the opulent few - (for these are not less exposed to, nor less susceptible

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  • Title: [[xxxvi. 26] 1821. April 25.]
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    1821. April 25.

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    Constitutional Finance

    In so far as, with reference to that better and happily larger portion of the whole community, they are regarded as being, in this scale of public virtue and good behaviour, superior or equal, delusion has place. Screwing /Raising/ up to its maximum the degree and effect of this delusion is a third purpose in which, under this form of Government, public waste employs itself.

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    In proportion to the quantity in which the waste employs itself in the affording of gratification to the appetites of the individuals in question, and by the whole of that quantity the purpose of delusion is completely /in a complete degree/ accomplished, and the purpose of corruption in a principal degree: To screw up the effect of corruptive influence to its maximum may probably require endeavours to an amount more or less considerable specially directed to that particular purpose: and Such endeavours are /being/ acordingly no where and never wanting, means are wanting for forming /pronouncing by/ any sufficiently grounded judgment whether, without such endeavours, the mere possession of that same or any other quantity of the subject matter of waste operating of itself in the character of matter of corruptive influence would, in the hands in question, be adequate to the production of the actual effect. Be this as it may, it will be, if it is not already, sufficiently manifest that, by the same quantity of the matter of wealth thus expended in waste by the hands in question, in addition to the gratification of the several appetites, those two other purposes, corruption and delusion - all three, though so inseparably connected, so perfectly distinguishable from each other, are produced.

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