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Title: [1821. April 28. First Lines]

Description: 1821. April 28.

First Lines

Every particle of power over and above that quantity which is necessary to the giving existence and security to the best form of Government, is an instrument of misrule: every particle of factitious dignity without expectation is not only an instrument of individual injury to those who have none of it, but an instrument of misrule. Every particle of the matter of opulence, added to a mass of a certain magnitude already in hand, adds to the facility, and thence to the desire, of administering, by all sorts of means imaginable, innoxious or noxious further and further gratification to that insatiable concupiscence.

Hence it is that while it is conducive to the greatest happiness of the greatest number that, for the sake of present enjoyment; the matter of subsistence and opulence into lots of such smallness as is consistent with the sense of individual security for property as well as with the magnitude and sufficiency of that aggregate stock of the matter of opulence which is necessary to national security in all its shapes as against all its adversaries, so it is in a distinct and particular manner to the particular object of the Constitutional branch of law: viz. security against misrule:- against injury to the subject many at the hands of the ruling few as such.

On In the breasts the part of that class description of men in whose instance preeminent opulence has for its accompaniment pride grounded on the contemplation of ancestry, the so generally prevalent and but too efficient propensity to place in comparative indigence all their children but one for the purposes of heaping opulence upon that one as well as to committ depredations upon as many as they feel within the reach of it on the false pretence of a fund for payment which with the assistance of their accomplices in the several shapes of the legislator and professional lawyer they have secretly combine to render inapplicable to the purpose hold already brought to view: in the same breast may be seen the seed-plot of the abovementioned ever insatiable concupiscence.

JB_037_055_001.xml

Title: [1821 April 28 First Lines]

Description: 1821 April 28

First Lines

Constitutional Distributive (1.)

In so far as it matches with, and is determined by, the state of the Constitutional branch of the law, the state of the distributive branch of law, as applied to benefits, will, under the different forms of Government present wear the different aspects complexions following.

The state of the [distributive branch of Law as applied to benefits] exercises an influence on the state and the results of the Constitution branch of Law in manner following.

The matter of opulence is the matter of corruption: in it is contained a large proportion of the matter of delusion: of the stock of instruments applicable and applying themselves to the production of delusion.

A man who feels in his hands a certain portion of the matter of opulence, especially favoured by situation in other respects, has in his hands inducements for seeking to acquire, in such proportions as his individual taste prescribes and the state of the Government under which he lives places within his reach, in the greatest attainable quantities, continual additions to whatsoever stock he has already in his hands of the several external instruments of felicity — opulence, power, and factitious dignity. For the obtainment of these several objects of general desire, he acts under the continual temptation of employing this stock of the matter of opulence in the character of matter of corruption: by applying it to the sensitive faculties of the several possessors of political power in those several shapes in which, by the exercise of that power in his favour, the several objects of his [abovementioned] naturally insatiable concupiscence: applying itself to those several faculties in such sort as, by its corruptive influence on them, to produce a correspondent and requisite exhibition of corrupt obsequiousness.

037_055.xml

Title: [1821 April 28 First Lines Constitutional]

Description: 1821 April 28

First Lines

Constitutional

Distributive

In so far as it matches with, and is determined by, the state of the Constitutional branch of law, the state of the remunerative /distributive/ branch of law, as applied to benefits, will, under the different forms of government wear /present/ the different complexions /aspects/ following.

The state of the distributive branch of Law as applied to benefits exercises an influence on the state and the results of the Constitution branch of Law in manner following:

The mater of opulence is the matter of corruption: in it is contained a large proportion of the matter of delusion: of the stock of instruments applicable and applying themselves to the production of delusion.

A man who feels in his hands a certain portion of the matter of opulence, especially favoured by situation in other respects, has in his hands inducements for seeking to acquire, in such proportions as his individual taste prescribes and the state of the Government under which he lives place within his reach, in the greatest attainable quantities, continual additions to whatsoever stock he has already in his hands of the several external instruments of felicity - opulence, power, and factitious dignity. For the obtainment of these several objects of general desire, he acts under the continual temptation of employing this stock of the matter of opulence in the character of metter of corruption: by applying it to the sensitive faculties of the several possessors of political power in those several shapes in which, by the exercise of that power in his favour, the several objects of his abovementioned naturally insatiable concupiscence: applying itself to those several faculties in such sort as, by its corruptive influence on them, to produce a correspondent and requisite exhibition of corrupt obsequiousness.