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[lxxxiv. 146] 1822 Feb. 5 Codification
[lxxxiv. 146]

1822 Feb. 5

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Thus it is that in a mixt Monarchy in a time of domestic tranquillity the power of the Monarch is perpetually on the encrease until the Mixt Monarchy becomes a pure and absolute one. Into the scale which contains the power of the Monarch, power is continually pouring itself from the fountain of corruptive influence: out of the scale which contains the power of the people power is continually running /made to flow/ by the pressure by which the liberty of public discussion is forced out.

In The field of an all comprehensive Code includes /is included/ the field of operation of every modification of the Monarchical interest and every branch of Aristocratical interest. By alliance with the most preponderant /powerful/ of all particular and sinister interests the Monarchical there is not any branch of the Aristocratical interest that is not capable of receiving advancement at the expence of the universal interest.

For every Office or other political good thing in the gift of a sharer in the Monarchical or in any branch of the Aristocratical interest for every such good thing in possession there are perhaps twenty expectants: for every corruption eater twenty corruption©hunters: every such Office is therefore the source and centre of an atmosphere of corruptive influence.

Two and twenty millions a year is the value /amount/ of a part of the Offices and other good things in the gift of the Monarch alone: not to speak of those which are in the gift of so many branches of the Aristocratical interest all of them in a state of the closest alliance with the Monarchical interest. To find the aggregate amount of the force of corruptive influence what multiplier shall we take as representative of the number of men corrupted by expectancy in addition to the number of those corrupted by the possession of all these several good things? Look over the Book exhibiting the Official establishment count the individual offices, thus may you get the number of those corrupted by possession: multiply that number by the multiplier fixt upon then will you have the number of those corrupted by expectancy. But if corrupted by the Monarch or by any branch of the Aristocracy, each /every/ man who of himself is rich or otherwise powerful is of himself the source of an atmosphere of corruptive influence.
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