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Title: [[xxxvi. 109] 1822 June 28 Constitut]

Description: [xxxvi. 109]

1822 June 28

Constitut Code

Supreme Operative

I. Monarch absolute

2. Intellectuals

2. Next as to intellectual aptitude. The branch of inaptitude opposed to appropriate intellectual aptitude is also in this case at his maximum. In the article /respect/ of moral aptitude the condition of the Monarch as such being that which has been described, towards the consequence is - that towards the greatest happiness of the greatest number, all that in the situation in question could be done by intellectual aptitude if raised to its maximum would be the preserving that same greatest number from such unhappiness /infelicity/ as should in the eyes of the Monarch not be contributory to his own felicity. But by the care taken of his own felicity at the expence of theirs, their infelicity on their part may be raised to a pitch /height/ to which no limit can be assignable. Take for example the case of Frederic the Great King of Prussia See the state of the people under his government as depicted by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams Diplomatic Resident of England at his Court, in the Appendix to The Earl of Orford's Memoirs London 1822.

But in comparison of other men who have had the advantages of what is called a liberal education, intellectual aptitude is in the situation of Monarch, by unchangeable causes placed at the lowest pitch

Of the two branches of intellectual aptitude appropriate knowledge is that in respect of which the deficiency is less considerable and less uniformly exemplified In the situation of Monarch, as in every other situation, man is necessarily for a length of time more or less considerable, placed by the infirmity attached to immaturity of age placed in a state of subjection. During his continuance in that state not only knowledge at large but knowledge in some sort and degree appropriate, is injected into the infirm and unresisting mind. Knowledge? but of what sort?

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Title: [[xxxvi. 5] 1821. April 26.]

Description: [xxxvi. 5]

1821. April 26.

Constitut. Code

Constitutional Finance?

1. As to appropriate moral aptitude. If, in the breast of the individual in question,

instead of appropriate aptitude in this shape, the opposite inaptitude be found /have

place/, be the degree of appropriate intellectual aptitude and active talent ever so

great, so it is that, /the result will be/ by any extraordinary degree of appropriate

intellectual aptitude and appropriate active talent, the aggregate quantity of

apprpriate aptitude, so far from being augmented, will be diminished. Appropriate moral

aptitude consists, on this occasion, in the disposition to promote, to the utmost, the

greatest happiness of the greatest number: the inaptitude, correspondent and opposite to

this branch of appropriate aptitude, is - the disposition to promote the particular

happiness /interest/ of the individual in question and his particular connections, at

the expence, and by the sacrifice, of a portion, to any amount larger, of that other and

more extensive interest and happiness. But, the greater the degree of appropriate

intellectual aptitude and correspondent active talent the individual possesses, the

greater is the degree of facility he will possess with respect to the carrying into

effect that disposition of his which, by the supposition, has place: viz. the

disposition to make sacrifice of the greatest good of the greatest number to his own

private interest according to the conception that happens to be entertained by him in

relation to it.

The higher a man's place is in the scale of external felicity, the lower, not the

higher, will naturally, not to say necessarily, be his place in the scale of appropriate

moral aptitude as here explained.

1. Sympathy

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Title: [[xxxvi. 102] 1822 June 28 Constitut]

Description: [xxxvi. 102]

1822 June 28

Constitut. Code Rationale

Supreme Operative

I Monarch absolute

1. Morals

Question. Why not give to the State-Chief, possessor of the Supreme Executive power under the Supreme Legislative the Supreme Legislative power, thus placing the whole Operative power of the Country in that one hand.

Answer Because in that case the inaptitude opposite to appropriate aptitude in all its several branches would be /is/ at its maximum.

1. The inaptitude opposite to appropriate Moral aptitude is in this case /state of thing/ at its maximum. In consequence /pursuance/ of the self preference inherent in human nature, the end of his government will be the greatest possible happiness of his individual self. This object according to whatever happens to be his notions of it he will pursue without regard to the happiness of the greatest number, at the expence of that happiness, and to the sacrifice of that happiness. His sinister interest having no right and proper interest to serve as a check to it, the force of his power having no counterforce to check it and keep the action of it in a state of conformity to the public interest, his desire to make on all occasions the sinister sacrifice, will have nothing to /find no power in a condition to/ oppose it, will on every occasion find ample means for the gratification of it and the sacrifice will at all times under his government be consummated.

He will accumulate under his own grasp all the external instruments of felicity, all the objects of general desire in the greatest quantity possible: all at the expence of and by the sacrifice of the felicity of the other members of the community

All around him being below him, dependent every one /all/ of them on his pleasure for whatsoever portion of felicity they are suffered to enjoy, he find in none of them any desire to oppose his will in any of the above particulars, in all of them the disposition and the endeavours to give accomplishment to it.

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