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[clviii. 350] 1822 June 7 Economy
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12. By those by whom the maximum of moral as well as intellectual aptitude is assented to be conferred by genealogical relation, neither can the relevancy of the above distinction be desired /denied/, nor the sufficiency of borrowed aptitude.

or 13. At an age below that at which no individual is deemed apt for the management of his own affairs, a Monarch is deemed apt for management of the affairs of all! Why? because the deficiency of self seated aptitude is supplied by derivative aptitude, transcendent it is said in quality.

or 14. Intellectual aptitude none, but through do. labour. In Monarch, inducement to do. minimized: without any, he is sure of more means of happiness than are obtainable by the maximum of do. labour. All his time not occupied in other pleasures, is occupied in enjoyment of pleasures of power.

(So in the case of the ruling few.)

or 15. In Monarchs, mental derangement some hundred times more common than in subjects. Down to the moment when utter absence of judgment is too notorious not to be declared, it is declared at a maximum, and the declaration acted upon.

or 16. Thus on general argument. How on particular experience? In U.S. for more than 40 years, supreme constitutives the people: do. operatives their delegates. No where in all branches appropriate aptitude so near a maximum. No where felicity do. so far as depends on Government

or 17. Conclusion. In all places and times, appropriate aptitude has been as power left in people's hands: so as rulers' expence, inversely: aptitude, thence people's felicity.

or 18. So even where instead of being elected on a principle of equality, the possessors of supreme operative power have been self-placed, coming together in multitudes out of the body of the people: instead of immorality and misery, morality and felicity maximized.

Witness Ireland years between 1777 and 1783, under the volunteers; so say Historians of all parties - Radicals - Whigs, and Tories. See Hardy's Life of Charlemont.

A few years after, note the speech of Charlemont's creature Grattan, denying the possibility of that which he had been witnessing, and concurred in putting an end to.
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    Objection Intellectuals deficient

    or 1. Objection to all subjects supreme Constituents - inaptitude as to intellectual aptitude

    In appropriate knowledge, thence in do. judgment, the majority are unapt, each of them, to the function of contributing to the location and dislocation of a trustee, for the taking charge of this part of his interest.

    or 2. Answer 1. Inapplicable this objection, until other hands more apt be assigned: viz in intellectual aptitude Superior, and in moral do. either superior, or else so inferior but that the deficiency is made up for by the superiority in intellectual.

    N.B. Active do. belongs not to the case: there being no room for it in the function of electing Constituent.

    or 3. 2. Case 1. The power in a single hand. Moral aptitude a minimum.

    Monarch's interest to accumulate in his own hands all means of felicity.

    Practice every where accordant. So says all history.

    or 4. Case 2. Power in a few hands. Interest the same Practice accordant.

    or 5. Case 3. Power in the joint hands of Monarch and Aristocrats.

    Intellectual aptitude here less than under aristocrats alone.

    or 6. Case 4. Power in joint hands of Monarch, Aristocrats, and People's Delegates.

    Difference here not great. 1. Interests being the same in moral aptitude not much difference. Intellectual greater than even in Case 2. But employed almost exclusively in the maximizing the instruments of felicity in the hands of the 3 partners: thence in minimizing people's share.

    or 7. In people, moral aptitude always at a maximum: in Monarch, at a minimum.

    or 8. In people, intellectual aptitude constantly encreasing, with and even without endeavour of supreme operatives.

    or 9. Of Monarch, constant endeavour to minimize people's intellectual aptitude, or divert it to other subjects, conveying instruction either mischievous or at best useless: to true, to substitute false, fallacious, and mischievous conceptions: in particular that a Monarch is the maximum of moral aptitude. So that in ruling few, aptitude is as altitude in conjunct scales of powerfulness, opulence, and factitious dignity.

    or 10. Objection 2.

    In the people, time for acquisition of appropriate intellectual aptitude necessarily deficient. Without do. aptitude in Elector, no apt judgment can be formed by him as to do. in Candidate.

    or 11. Answer 1. Inapplicable as before this objection unless in other determinate hands greater aggregate applied, is shown to have place.

    Here applies the distinction between aptitude self-seated, or say indiginous: and aptitude │   │ or say thro'

    advice. This is in every man's reach. By an all-comprehensive and rationalized Code, even indiginous aptitude wd., in all readers, be maximized.

    Thus the standing groundwork, events of the day as per newspapers the continually inflowing.

    Thenceforward, least knowing man's knowledge greater than most knowing man's do. before.
  • Title: [[clviii. 342] 1822 June 14.]
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    24. or 7. Hence for loading a nation with 600 millions of Debt, and 100,000 soldiers in 30 years no more appropriate aptitude, moral, intellectual or active is necessary on the part of English Statesmen than is possessed by all Cats meat barrow women and all cats.

    25. or 1. On what Functionaries the corruption operates, and to whose prejudice, depends on the form of Government.

    26. or 2. Case 1. Absolute Monarchy. End of Government, Monarch's greatest happiness: people's happiness no object of regard. Of people, no delegates, Agents, and Trustees Here, sole sinister sacrifice do. of Monarchs interest.

    27. or 3. Note here difference between Monarchy and Republic.

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    8 or 7. Q. Females - does greatest happiness principle require their exclusion.

    A. Not more than males. Yes, if females are not members of the community: their happiness not a portion of universal do.: their interest not a do. of do.: or if in them intellectual inaptitude is so great as to incapacitate them from self direction to self advantage.

    9. or 8. From experience, as attested by history, no reason why they should be deemed inferior? Take operative power in its highest grade and quantity: regal function.

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    1. Elizabeth higher than Henry 8 or James 1.

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    10. or 9. Consideranda. As to intellectual aptitude applied to the whole field of thought and action

    1. how little decided is the inferiority of females.

    2. how great their inferiority in respect of the means of acquiring do. aptitude under laws made by males.

    11. or 10. Unapt for supreme operative power they might be, yet not for constitutive: apt for supreme operative power and not for constitutive they can not be.

    12. or 11. From their right to equality as to happiness, if admitted, will follow their right to equality as to power considered as an instrument of happiness, so far as the nature of the species and sex permitts.

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    In domestic concerns, inferiority of physical force renders them inferior in power.

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    So, under the military government of males, they are not likely to be placed in civil offices.

    13. or 12. Hence, from Executive power in almost all its branches, they will stand excluded.

    Also, from share in supreme legislative power by contemplation of confusion and corruption from mixture of sexes. Hence, greater the demand for equal share in constitutive power with reference to supreme operative.

    14. or 13. Q. Custom - is it not sufficient warrant for exclusion here?

    A. No more than in the case of tyranny.

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    During war, necessity placed Government in single chief.

    During peace, war continually in prospect, habit and providence.

    For war, females rendered less apt by weakness.

    15. or 14. Origin of democratico-representative │   │ of single-seated despotism. Money for war defensive or offensive, more promptly and certainly extractible from willing than unwilling contributors. For money, they received a share first of influence, and by degrees of power.

    The management of the family property by them alone could the fatigue and danger of Journeys to and from the chief seat of power be endured.

    16. or 15. In an assembly mostly of males, no mixture of females without confusion and ridicule.

    17. or 16. Q. From admitting Females, any practical good at any time?

    A. Yes: rendering legislative arrangements less unequally burthensome to females.

    18. or 17. Q. Would you now propose admitting females into supreme constitutive power?

    A. No. Till legislative system had received the maximum of improvement on almost all other points, no good, only evil from do. in this. Result of the proposal, excitation and discussion such as to suspend all other business indefinitely.