1822 Aug. 12.

or 1.

Power is mischievous

in so far as needless.

Of factitious dignity, the

whole.

or 2.

1. At the expence of all

it is conferred.

or 3.

Its produce is - not obedience

indeed but obsequiousness;

i.e conformaty

to another's will.

or 4.

Persons to whom it

produces obsequiousness

are

1. The patron.

2. The dignitary

Towards the patron

most.

or 5.

Opinions it produces

1. That to the dignitary

belong power, opulence

and the good will of

the patron. This is commonly

more or less

true.

2 them, endowments

tending to render him

contributory to greatest

happiness, this is

always false.

or 6.

Factitious dignity is

the factitious cause

of factitious respect.

or 7.

Its product a confused

and indeterminate

mass of opinions

and conceptions

Principal ingredients

are —

1. In the dignitary, power

preeminent.

2. In d. o opulence d. o

3. D. o in habits with

men equal and even

superior in dignity,

and thence, or otherwise,

in power and

opulence.

or 7 contin. d

4. In d. o place in the

patron's esteem or affection

or both: thence

chance of obtaining

for others benefits such

as the patron can bestow.

5. In d. o qualities giving

him means and will

to contribute to greatest

happiness. True,

the first four false,

the 5th true, the reverse.

or 8.

curious and lamentable

its efficiency in the

production of the false

opinion, mischievous as

it is.

or 9.

In every case, the dignity

has for evidence of

its existence the instrument

or act by which

it is conferred: accompanied

commonly with

some symbol visible

and conspicuous, ex.

, ribbon, star, medal,

etc.

or 10.

Efficient cause of this

power in symbols or

signs, the associations

of ideas.

or 11.

Curious the irresistible

force with which they

operate in the production

of this effect.

Behold a set of men

whom taken in the aggregate

my judgment

pronounces below the

average in the scale of

worth, moral and intellectual.

yet by the sight of

any one is produced

the conception of the opposite

superiority.

or 12.

Cause of the inconsistency

train of associations

produced by authority in

all shapes and from all

sources from the earliest

dawn of reason. For

the introduction of the

false conception a amount the

of turn of a moment suffices: for

the expulsion, if at all nothing

less than a train of reflections.

can suffice

or 13.

So in case of Ghosts &

At the first moment of

Darkness opens the door

Imagination renders them present.

To bunch their

with the of judgment

judgment can it

great can through

during long life

existence in Ghosts is the

not more fabulous

than worth, moral or intellectual,

in those creatures

of Monarchy, State

Dignitaries.

or 14.

Source or corroboration

of the error, adulation adulation,

chief instrument of dissemination,

books; first

the pen, now the press.

In dignitaries, writers have

beholden possessors of power

and opulence to which,

in return for eulogy, they

have looked for benefit

to themselves.

Of the receipt of those benefits

the probability (they

say) would be not as the

moral or intellectual

worth of the dignitary:

such as his kindness towards

them, which again

would be as the intensity

of their eulogy on him.

or 15.

Factitious dignity, has it

in any stage of society

been contributory to greatest

happiness?

or 16.

Evil this institution has

been proved above. Needless,

by experience: viz of

: original number 13.

Ch. Factitious Dignity

G.

§. I. Factitious Dignity what

§ Cause of the

upon it. G

§ by it

, 4. 5

Magnitude of and

and un

conquerable of

. 11. 12. 13

cause of the

influence associate

. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Its effect in the conduct

and mind of parties interested.

3. 4. 5

Its mischievousness

1. 2. 19. 1 8

present & 24.

of the elements of effective

power this one

excluded; the

government not impaired,

but improved:

all benefits greater

without than with

it.