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Sinister interests and interest©begotten prejudices particularized and delineated.

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Monarch and Aristocrat /Representative/

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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.
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