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[xxxvi. 125] 1822 July 4 Constitut
[xxxvi. 125]

1822 July 4

Constitut. Code

Supreme Operative

I. Monarch

Instruments

This comes after their functions

In respect of moral character /frame of mind/ widely different are the effects which under a Monarch /in a Monarchy/ are produced in the three professions

The Soldier stands by himself. In occasionally applying force and being at all times in a state of preparation to apply it Force and intimidation the instruments he applies are no other than those the /without the eventual/ application of which the best government could no more have existence than the worst. Neither corruption nor delusion does it belong to his function /province/ to apply: neither of the one nor the other instrument is the application expected at his hands: neither of the one nor of the other is it natural or frequent for him to seek to apply: delusion in particular is much more likely to find in him a contemner than an approver. /a practicer./

Between the Lawyer and the Priest the analogy /similarity/ of situation and consequently /thence/ of character /frame of mind/ is natural /close/ and intimate. In governments in a /state either reputed or called/ semi-barbarous state they have been united in the same person. In England Priests were for a long time almost the only Lawyers. The coif once the covering of the priestly tonsure still an ingredient in the composition of the masquerade dress with which the Lawyer when placed in the Judicial Office, bears evidence the primaeval association to this day.

In the Mahometan religion, the Priest if not the only lawyer is at any rate the only Judge. In England the instances becomes daily more and more abundant in which the subordinate Judicial function /situation/ of the local Judge called Justice of the Peace is added to the function performed or not performed of the Priest.

In so far as for relief from their suffering the mind of people can find a place for hope, the situation and natural character of the Soldier is the chief if not the only source that can be found for it. The great instrument of democratical government the great support of the /universal/ interest of the people against all particular and thence sinister interests - the force of the popular or moral sanction brought into action by the Public Opinion Tribunal has every where and at all times found far more sensibility to it in the breast of the Soldier than in the breasts of either of those functionaries /workmen/ who work with delusion for their instrument /tool/

Accordingly when on those great occasions on which, against oppression by Monarchs, the interest of the subjects has found effectual supporters, Soldiers have been so by thousands, Lawyers and Priests, only no otherwise than by units.
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