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Title: [1821 July 9 Codification Office]

Description: 1821 July 9

Codification Office

'.9.

I. Pay of Useless places

List of Useless places.

1. The whole of the establishment kept up for the service of the person of the Chief functionary in the state in a Monarchy: kept up as the phrase is for the support of his dignity: for the maintenance of the lustre the splendor of his throne.

Proof of the uselessness of this office: the peaceful and flourishing condition of the Anglo-American United States in which in the federal State the pay of the Chief functionary is no more than /not so much as/ ,6,000 a year: and it is rather by imitation and prepossession, it should seem, than by any clear proof or view of a real and adequate demand to that amount, that in that instance the allowance of so large a sum was determined.

2. In every country in which the great body of the people profess to believe in the religion of Jesus in any shape, the whole of the pay allotted at the expence of the subject many under the notion of pay for teaching it and performing the ceremonies that /which/ have been attached to /connected with/ it. And note that pay produced by the occupation or rent of property in an unmoveable shape is so much received /extracted/ at the expence of the subject many: for by applying that same money to the provision made for real exigencies /the production money to that same amount /the suffering produced by the exaction/ might be saved /spared/.

Proof of the needlessness of pay drawn /forced exactions/ from this source, is the non-existence of any such system of exaction for the support of the Catholic Members of the Ecclesiastical establishment in Ireland.

Proof that no such contributions /exactions/ are ordained by /conformable to/ the religion of Jesus. No /text speaking of him as/ such exactions did he ordain: no text of the New Testament speaking of him as ordaining any such exaction is to be found: texts ordaining perfect equality among all professors of his religion are to be found /in existence/

036_064.xml

Title: [1821 July 9 '.9. 2. Factitious]

Description: 1821 July 9

'.9.

2. Factitious mischievous

Pay of useless places /offices/, pay of needless places /offices/, overpay of overpaid places /offices/, pay of places to which no duty is attached /sinecures/ - practices, in maintenance of subject matters of property in an unmoveable or immoveable shape: sale upon disadvantageous terms of subject matters of property already in the hands of government these are the sources from which /shapes in which/ at the expence of the greatest happiness of the greatest number money is drawn /in excess is extracted/ into the hands /palms/ of /by and for the benefit of/ public functionaries

036_062.xml

Title: [[036.062] 1821 July 9 Codification]

Description: [036.062]

1821 July 9

Codification Offer? or First Lines Constitutional.

'.9 Pay of Useless places

1. Useless official situations.

The whole of the establishment kept up for the service of the person of the Chief functionary in the state in a Monarchy: kept up, as the phrase is, for the support of his dignity: for the maintenance of the lustre, the splendour of his throne.

Proof of the uselessness of this office: the peaceful and flourishing condition of the Anglo-American United States, in which, in the federal state, the pay of the Chief functionary is no more than ,6,000 a year: and it is rather by imitation and prepossession, it should seem, than by any clear proof or view of a real and adequate demand to that amount, that, in that instance, the allowance of so large a sum was determined.

This Office is not merely useless: it is a great deal worse than useless. It is positively mischievous, and in a transcendent degree. Of the mass of the matter of wealth thus employed, the effects are corruption and delusion, corruption applying itself to public functionaries of all other shapes: delusion applying itself to them and to the subject many.

The delusion has for its effect, and object, the causing the several individuals on whom this lustre is stood to be regarded, contrary to the truth of the case, as being in moral as well as intellectual acquirements superior to the rest of the community - superior in the scale of [...?] benevolence, in that of wisdom, appropriate information, discernment and active talent. That this notion is opposite to the truth is matter of demonstration. For to his acquisition of all these endowments, self-denial in the shape of mental labour and other shapes is altogether indispensable: for self-denial is self-annoyance, and that which a man can obtain without self-annoyance, he will not expend self-annoyance on the obtainment of. By power, by money, by factitious dignity, a man is rendered an object of respect and even of affection to other men: especially to those whose place is below the level of his in those several scales: they are placed in a state of dependence with relation to him: he is exempt from dependence in relation to them. In respect of any services it may happen to him to be desirous of receiving at their hands, he is in so much a greater degree independent of his good behaviour in relation to them: of his good behaviour: i.e. of the degree in which he is in the habit of rendering to them services in both shapes, positive and negative: by negative service understand abstinence from inflicting annoyance in all its several shapes.