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[xxxviii. 59]
1822 June 29
Constitut. Code
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Ch Factitious dignity excluded
Ch. Securities for I Moral Aptit.
Factitious Dignity excluded
1. Dignity what - idea indeterminate - efficient cause of respect.
2. 1. Natural - cause respect opinion entertained of conduct and frame of mind.
3. 2. Factitious - cause the act of another.
4. Its distinctive character, causing respect to be shown to men in any number, towards whom, were conduct and character known, the opposite sentiment might be entertained by all.
5. Exclusion of the power of conferring mischievous respect is among the neccesary securities for operative's moral aptitude: viz. lessening power without prejudice to the proper end of Government.
Ground of the proposed exclusion, the persuasion that the effect is purely evil.
6. Division 1. Source, condition of the │ │ an individual, or a line of do.
Line 1. Political or say official.
2. Genealogical.
7. Division 2. Source, Inducement to the act by which the dignity is conferred.
Collation is 1. grounded. 2. Ungrounded.
If grounded, ground the contemplation of service in some shape done or eventually likely to be done by the dignitary to individual, individual or community.
8. By Government, neither in this nor in any other shape can benefit be conferred on some, but at the expence of others. Take any two men: by neither can a quantity of respect in which the other has no share be shown, but less must be shown to the other. Effect as to this, the same as a tax as to money. To no one can money be given by Government but it must have been taken from another.
9. Sole seat of this sort of manufactory, Monarchy: to assign grounds is not there customary.
10. By article manufactured, pleasure produced in two souls - 1. Manufacturers: 2. receivers. Groundless or not, here is collation ungrounded.
11. In so far as grounded, i.e. ground - viz. justificative cause, assigned, the ground is, attaching reward to service: meritorious service. Service of truly meritorious or useful; i.e. conducive to happiness in net quantity.
12. Axiom 1. Reward shd. be proportioned to service: felicity produced by the reward to do. by the service.
13. Axiom 2. The greater the service, the geater the reward.
14. True if by reward given to a man nothing were taken from any one else, remuneration could not be exessive. By what philanthropist could man be blamed for conferring on members net happiness to any amount? But neither in regard to respect, nor in regard to money, can this be.
15. Axiom 3. Be service maximized, expence, minimized.
16. By the performance of an act useful to the public, natural dignity, in so far as known to have been performed, and thought to be useful, general respect is obtained: natural dignity widened: exactly proportioned is this reward to the estimated value of the service Benefit produced by Primus's service twice as great as do. by Secundus: unless, as per axiom 3, obtained at less expence.
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Title: [[xxxviii. 60] 1822 June 29.]Description: [xxxviii. 60] 1822 June 29. Constitutional Code Ch. Factitious dignity exposed 17. Subjects of deception are 1. Existence of the supposed service. 2. Magnitude of do. 3. Need of reward for producing it. 4. Quantity of reward needed. By greatest happiness principle, remedies are here afforded, remedies such as have never been afforded under Monarchy. 18. Notandums. Sole service to which such extraordinary reward can aptly be applied, extraordinary service - viz. 1. Service rendered to others by individuals at large not under obligation as to do. 2. Service rendered by functionary to public, over and above what by office he was under obligation to render. 19. True: cases exist, where to preserve requisite extra service, reward is needed in more substantial and universally acceptable shape, viz. money. Example. At risk of life, limb, and health, extra military service. Thus are pensions for loss of limb, life and wounds given by U.S. most frugal and wise of Governments. 20. Notandum 3d. Factitious dignity here marked for exclusion is do. as ordinarily conferred on Monarchies: i.e. without collection and publication of evidence of the service on which this reward was grounded. 21. Sole means by which Government should be instrumental in conferring dignity as a reward: collection and publication of the evidence probatory of the existence, shape, and quantity of the service: with the evil sustained or hazarded by the service-renderer: evil - viz. to himself.
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Title: [[xxxviii. 69] 1822 July 10.]Description: [xxxviii. 69] 1822 July 10. Constitut Code Rationale Factitious honor ?.1. Expository matter ??.1. Nature and modifications. 8 or 1. Characters in which a title of honor operates. 1. Order for respect: as such is a title to respect: i.e. to the external tokens of it: order for money is on one individual: for respect, on all. 9. or 2. Exercise of dominion on the many - in almost all. Instrument of dominion not coercion, not intimidation, but delusion. Evil thence not so great: yet still too great. 10. or 3. 2. Certificate of good desert, alias merit: import indeterminate; this the course of choice: Fact attested existence of this quality in the subject. 11. or 4. Effect produced, causing to be ascribed to him dignity: i.e. worthiness: viz. of receiving respect or tokens of it: means employed, opinion expressed by the conferring functionary that this benefit has been deserved by him - on whom conferred: deserved i.e. by service rendered by him: quere to whom? Of service, if real, the result must be pleasure or exemption from pain, actual or probable. 12. or 5. So, merited. Take away service, thence pleasure and pain, merit evaporates. 13. or 6. To be meritorious, such service must have had in it something extraordinary. Of services the most useful are such as have no merit. Thus self-feeding, and sale and purchase of food. 14. or 7. Respect - its value, if any, must consist in a certainty or probability of benefits in a more determinate shape.
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Title: [{Nov r 3 1817.} Government at 70]Description: {Nov r 3 1817.} Government at 70 Government Factitious dignity 1 1 When a factitious dignity is conferred a draft is drawn upon the public for a certain portion of respect to be paid to the person or persons on whom it is conferred. Under monarchies in general and the english monarchy in particular the person by whom drafts of this kind to the greatest amount are drawn is the monarch. Like all other practises that have place in the business of government this is kept up because it has been kept up: as to the question of public utility the uselessness of the practise is either never thought of, or taken for granted. Upon examination /scrutiny/ made of this practise on the ground of public utility the result is - that it is on no account useful and on several accounts pernicious. If on being questioned any endeavour is used to justify and defend it on the ground of public utility it will be under the notion of its being conducive to the production of meritorious public service: service from which the quantity of happiness in the whole community taken together receives increase. The result of the scrutiny is that in several ways this quantity that experiences diminution and in none increase. To be bestowed with a view to the production of meritorious public service is to be bestowed in the way of reward. The aggregate mass of factitious dignities forms accordingly one component part of that mass of the matter of reward which in this country is in the hands and actual disposal of y e Monarch One non hereditary two hereditary: both naturally mis-applied: hereditary would be wasteful if well-applied.
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