JB_034_165.xml

Title: [[034-165v] 1821. June 12. Codification]

Description: [034-165v]

1821. June 12.

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'.5. Draughtsman single

1. Separate aptitude

the other hand all manifestations and degrees of extraordinary good desert, will be not only placed full in view, but be placed to the account of that individual, and him alone, to whose account they respectively belong: in the case of divers draughtsmen, no item, either on the side of ill-desert, or on the side of extraordinary good desert, will, in any distinct manner be placed to the account of any body.

To all instruments of despotism - to all corruptionists - to all whose endeavour or desire it is to sacrifice or see sacrificed to this or that particular interest or cluster of interests, the greatest happiness of the greatest number - in a word to evil-doers and evil-wishers of all classes, this system of concealment, and thence of equalization, by which evil desert and good desert are by one and the same implement kept out of sight, is in the highest degree, and in a double account, convenient: for, while the authors of evil are themselves concealed from the eye of public opinion, they are at the same time secured against all apprehension of any such unfavourable contrast, as would be presented to public view, by the spectacle of any such merits, as might otherwise be manifested, by the well-disposed, or less badly disposed among their colleagues: by the well-disposed, supposing always the system such as to afford admittance to any individuals, to whom an epithet of so favourable a character could with propriety be applied.

In this case, from plurality as opposed to unity, two distinguishable sorts of bad effects, (it may have been observed,) have been brought to view. The one is produced by the want of restraint as applied to ill-desert, combined with the want of encouragement to extra good desert: The other consists in the multiplication given to the number of the persons in question: in the number of the persons who are at once able and disposed to join their forces for the completion of any sinister sacrifice, the temptation and opportunity for which may be found offered by a power so compleatly all-comprehensive.

JB_084_036.xml

Title: [ÁÁ[sheet preceeding lxxxiv. 36] Codification]

Description: ÁÁ[sheet preceeding lxxxiv. 36]

Codification Proposal

Appendix

Sinister interests and interest©begotten prejudices particularized and delineated.

[lxxxiv. 36]

1821 Dec. 9

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penult

?.5. Draughtsman Single

/Appendix/

Monarch and Aristocrat /Representative/

Relat

II. Delusion [?]

Causes of the [...?].

1. [...?] by all writers

2. Power of doing good is as power at large © a small [...?] operates.

But in the character of a fund of corruptive influence suppose the aggregate of the Monarch's prerogatives insufficient to produce the corruptive effect. Still in the character of a source of delusive influence it would ruin a man.

In so far as in the situation of public functionary virtue means a /the/ disposition to preserve /maintain/ on every occasion such line of conduct as shall be in the highest degree possible contributory to the greatest happiness of the greatest number (and only so far as that is the meaning of it is it of any value) the length of a mans situation in the seat of virtue is naturally not in the direct but rather in the inverse ratio of the hight of his situation in the [...?] seat of money power, and if there be any factitious dignity: and for this plain [?] reason [?] that the better a man stands assured of the good offices of others without any sacrifices of his self©regarding interest to them, the less will he be disposed to make any such sacrifice.

But /Unhappily/ of the spectacle of any large assemblage of those [?] instruments of felicity lodged in one hand such is the delusive effect as to produce as to that matter by the force of imagination a persuasion directly opposite to the truth.

JB_084_180.xml

Title: [[lxxxiv. 180] 1822 Feb. 15]

Description: [lxxxiv. 180]

1822 Feb. 15

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? 5

V

2.

Corruptionists Emblems

One thing the Monarchists of both descriptions /classes/ © the rod©of©iron men and the corruptionists are agreed upon © this is that the Monarch whoever he is is most excellent. Most excellent © in what? in regard for the greatest happiness of the greatest number? No: neither of this have they ventured any of them to assure us. The contrary would have been too palpable: not regard but disregard for that object is on the part of that man of all others at once sure and conspicuous: demonstrated by the very /unchangeable/ nature of man demonstrated by all history and all experience

On this occasion [...?] of argument has drawn the corruptionists into a self©contradiction which the rod©of©iron men have had no need to hamper themselves with. Most excellent? If so, in which of the three branches or elements of appropriate aptitude? aptitude with relation to the ever unspecified end. Is it the moral branch. O yes © though the contrary as above stands demonstrated that they will of course stickle for the Corruptionists as well as the rod©of©iron men. But here the two divisions split. In /Ask them how it is with their idol in/ respect of appropriate intellectual aptitude and appropriate active talent their /the/ answer is © not only not above par, but below it: below it, and to a degree which places /stations/ him in at least as low a level as that of a child in leading strings. Is there so much as a single act that he is capable of doing so much as a single determination that he is capable of taking by the guidance of his own judgment? Oh no: nothing can the great baby ever do but under the direction of some /his/ dry nurse. Oh but the great baby may turn off his dry nurses and choose new /fresh/ ones as often as it /he/ pleases: and if the baby has soiled /it has happened to the great baby to soil/ his sheets, the cast off dry©nurse may be made to pay for it.

This supposition, howsoever exaggerated, has more of truth in it than most of their other principles. But what would be said of that man who for the management of his own affairs, of of the affairs of any individual for whom he had any regard should choose an agent, who, in his opinion, was thus deficient?