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[lxxxiv. 119]
1822 Jany 24
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?.5. Admission Universal
The English is the Government by which under circumstances peculiarly favorable this concern has been carried on, without need of any peculiar degree of skill, with peculiar felicity and profit: witness the áœá55,000,000 annually shared: the labour of about a hundred millions of human beings in Hindostan having for some time been added to the stock In support of misrule and its attendant miseries, religion is there employed with brilliant success against that morality by which happiness in this life is produced; and law has been brought to that /worked up to such a/ state that in its weakness the people find /behold/ the only cause /circumstance/ by which their condition is distinguished to its advantage from that of the poeple in the worst governed states /communities/.
So vast is the quantity /mass/ of the matter of wealth that has been converted into the matter and instrument of corruptive influence /object /support/ of sinister interest/ and the source and support of sinister influence that by the mere prospect of a share in the particular and sinister interest in the profit of the sinister partnership concern a large proportion capable of amounting to a majority /perhaps not much less than a majority/ are led to contribute each of them to the sacrifice of his share in the universal interest of his own right and proper and exclusively permanent interest: and, by having all along for its support a correspondent body of interest©begotten prejudice, original weakness carefully nursed /nurtured/ by exclusion of mental /intellectual/ culture or application of culture worse than useless together with authority©begotten prejudice growing out of these other sources of delusion, misrule with its attendant miseries is there more firmly seated than in any of those countries in which it is most afflictive.
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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.
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Title: [[lxxxiv. 74] 1821 Decr 25 Codification]Description: [lxxxiv. 74] 1821 Decr 25 Codification Proposal ?.5 Adm<...>n Universal III. Aptitude and Inaptitude In every /any/ political situation and for every sort of political work, such are the elements of appropriate aptitude. In every political situation appropriate aptitude finds itself encountered by the operation of various causes of relative inaptitude © causes the tendency of which is to diminish the degree of appropriate aptitude on the part of persons filling the situation in question or engaged in the work in question © diminishing it in one or more of its several shapes as above. The following are the heads under one or other of which /Sinister interest, interest©begotten prejudice inbred intellectual weakness, authority©begotten prejudice © here in these heads, one or other of them/ /will/ the several causes of such relative inaptitude may it is believed be comprehended will it is believed be found /it is believed/ comprehendible:/./ namely 1: Sinister interest: 2. Interest©begotten prejudice: 3. Original /General/ intellectual weakness. 4. Authority©begotten prejudice By sinister interest understand interest acting upon human /man's/ conduct in a direction opposite to that which leads to the greatest happiness of the greatest number. By right and proper interest understand In the mental frame of man /it is in/ the will is the part to which the seductive force of sinister interest applies itself and operates /operates/: it is to the intellectual part that the several other causes of inaptitude, namely interest©begotten prejudice, inbred intellectual weakness, and authority©begotten prejudice more immediately apply themselves. By prejudice, in so far as any clear idea is attached to it, is understood prepossession operating /acting/ in a sinister direction © in a direction opposite to the only right and proper direction /opinion so often mentioned/: by prepossession judgment already formed in relation to the matter in question whatever it be.
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Title: [[lxxxiv. 108] 1822 Jany 20]Description: [lxxxiv. 108] 1822 Jany 20 Codification Offer ult¼o ?.5. Admission Universal Members unapt By sinister interest understand every particular interest by which, it being opposite to the interest of that is detrimental to the greatest happiness of the greatest number a man is led /prompted/ to sacrifice to it that universal /all comprehensive/ interest. Such sacrifice may be termed the sinister sacrifice By prejudice understand erroneous prepossession: prepossession in the case where it is regarded as errroneous Not in this only but in the succeeding sections will these explanations be found to have their use. It is in sinister interest that the relative inaptitude which corresponds to appropriate moral aptitude has its cause. It is in interest©begotten prejudice, original weakness and authority©begotten prejudice that that modification of relative inaptitude which corresponds to appropriate judgement has its cause. Interest©begotten prejudice, though by the supposition it would not have had existence but for sinister interest, may where it does exist be in any proportion more mischievous in a proportion to any amount greater, contributing to the sinister sacrifice than sinister interest itself. For /To/ the number of persons capable of being sharers /partakers/ in /infected with/ the sinister interest there are certain limits: to the number of those capable of adopting /taking up/ and retaining the interest©begotten prejudice there are no limits: 2. by a change of circumstances the particular interest in question may cease to operate in the direction and character of a sinister interest: it may operate in the opposite direction and thus become a right and proper interest: whereas prejudice when once formed may continue to any length of time inflexible, contributing so long as it has place to the sinister sacrifice. Notorious are the instances in which by thousands and ten thousands by prejudice in its various forms /modes/ men have been led to sacrifice each of them his own unquestionable interest while contributing to the sacrifice of the universal interest at the altar of monarchical and aristocratical despotism[?].
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