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Title: [[lxxxiv. 80] 1821 Decr 26 Codification]

Description: [lxxxiv. 80]

1821 Decr 26

Codification Proposal

?.5 Admission Universal

III Aptitude and Inaptitude

Prejudice

England

Now A word as to interest©begotten prejudice

Though among prejudice the most mischievous prejudices would not perhaps have had existence had it not been for the corresponding sinister interests, yet especially when considered as /the character of/ a cause of inaptitude with reference to the work in question /it may happen to a/ prejudice in this or that shape may perhaps be found more powerful in its action, and thence more pernicious than the corresponding sinister interest. To the number of those who are capable of possessing a share in a sinister interest, the /there are certain /determinate/ limits: limits applied by the/ very nature of the case opposes certain limits: for suppose it shared in by the greatest number of the members of the community an /the/ interest is by the supposition by the very definition not a sinister but a right and proper interest. But to the number of the persons capable of being under the dominion of a prejudice, whether interest©begotten or inbred, there are absolutely no limits other than those which /which apply to/ the number of the members of the whole community. In England it is by their own sinister interest that in England all Monarchs have been /of course been at all times/ led to sacrifice to that particular and thence sinister interest the interest of all the rest of the community /their fellow Citizens/. It is by a conjunct sinister interest that their several subordinates in the several departments of government have at all times by the possession or prospect of shares in the profit of the sacrifice been at all times led /prompted/ to give support and encrease to that same sinister sacrifice. It is by that same interest that they have been led to nourish in their own breasts the corresponding prejudice by which this sinister sacrifice is /never ceases to be/ represented as a right and proper one: At the time of James II In all these minds by the sinister interest was begotten the desire and endeavour to sacrifice to the particular and sinister interest of the ruling one for his own benefit and that of the few that were ruling under him, the interest of the many. By that same sinister interest was begotten in an unascertainable but probably not inconsiderable proportion of these same minds, the prejudice according to which this same sinister sacrifice was a right and proper sacrifice: and that accordingly it was in /on/ the instance /part/ of every individual matter of duty to contribute by obedience and obsequiousness without reserve, to the utmost of his power, to that same sinister sacrifice: a duty the fulfilment of which had for its enforcement the three great Sanctions, the popular or moral, as well as the political, and still more unreservedly than the political, the religious.

JB_084_020.xml

Title: [[lxxxiv. 20] 1821 Decr 5 Codification]

Description: [lxxxiv. 20]

1821 Decr 5

Codification Offer

penult

?.5 Draughtsman single

I. Monarchs interest

If for want of such a support his own individual security be lessened it may be his interest to allow to a portion of his subjects a quantity /mass/ of power being in such sort dependent on his own, as not liable to be taken back again by himself. The persons to whom such partially independent power is allowed become thereby members of a particular body © of that sort of political body which is stiled an aristocratical one: /body:/ or in one word an aristocracy

If there be any other sinister interest the continuance or establishment of which would be contributory /subservient/ to his own sinister interest it is his interest to give as the case may be existence or support to it.

So likewise, as to interest©begotten prejudice, authority©begotten prejudice, and original relative intellectual weakness

Under a Monarch In so far as sinister interest operates with effect, misrule has place bad government is the result: bad government, or in one word misrule

In a certain sense of the word instrument, force, intimidation, corruption and delusion. Force and intimidation are necessary instruments of good as well as of bad government.

Force applies to the physical faculties of the person on whom or thing on which it is exercised: intimidation is the force of evil apprehended to be applied in the character of punishment: corruption is the application of the matter of reward to a sinister purpose: delusion is the production of erroneous opinion /judgment/ or erroneous conception by instruments working on the imagination: by the same instrument corruption and delusion may be made to take effect on the same subject

Thus by a military force /body/ /establishment/ with its decorations /trappings/ force, intimidation, corruption and delusion are produced.

JB_084_091.xml

Title: [[lxxxiv. 91] 1821 Decr 28 Codification]

Description: [lxxxiv. 91]

1821 Decr 28

Codification Proposal.

?.5 Admission Universal

Aptitude and Inaptitude

Chart of the course of

Misrule

That the effect of this /such/ system of misrule may be the more clearly understood, and a perception of it brought home as it were to the feelings of every individual, another desirable operation would have been /is/, the giving a delineation of the sinister course which in pursuance /for the advancement/ /by the pursuit/ of his own particular and sinister interest each individual or class of persons will be led to pursue:- the course that in the exercise of his power and influence the Monarch would be led to pursue, and the sacrifices which he would be led to make of the universal to his own particular and sinister interest during his progress in that course: the like in regard to every one of the numerous classes and sub-classes into which in every country the aristocracy of the country is divided: in a word the direction taken by misrule in these several situations for the attainment of the several sinister ends - for the consummation of its share in the sinister sacrifice. the sinister sacrifice made which is as much as to say /in other words/ the several evils physical, moral and intellectual produced.

An analysis of this sort has /was/ accordingly been commenced /undertaken/ and nearly finished. But already and before it was compleated the space occupied by it was found to be such, as to oppose a peremptory bar to its admission in this place. In connection with this paper /little work/ with the present paper Should it ever see the light it must be in the form of an Appendix.

Meantime what may be sufficient to warrant /afford a completely sufficient warrant for/ the practical measure he proposed, is this undeniable truth: namely that in the situation in question as well as in every other every man being by the constitution of his nature led to pursue his own individual interest in preference to and at the expence of all other interests put together no arrangement by which this universal propensity can be in any degree counteracted can justly be regarded as misapplied or needless and superfluous.