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[clx. 257] 1822 July 4 Constitut
[clx. 257]

1822 July 4

Constitut. Code

Factitious Dignity /Honor/

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1 Note that In the instance of every such service, the mass of reward in all its parts taken together must afford such a mass of benefit to the individual in question as shall be sufficient to outweigh in his mind the burthen sustained by the rendering of it. In so far as public affection and respect enter into the composition of the means of purchase, this relation between quantity of service and quantity of reward will require to be considered. Benefit of reward must outweigh burthen of service.

2. The greater the value of the service, that is to say of the benefit, the greater is the burthen which those /he/ on whom it depends in the instance in question will be disposed to take upon himself on the occasion and for the purpose of his rendering it. The greater a service, the greater the reward worth giving for it.

3. If on any occasion there be two services so circumstanced that for the individual or individuals in question either may /can/ be performed but both /not both/ of them not, any two masses of reward that shall appear capable of being earned by the performance of the two services respectively should be so apportioned, that the receipt of more valuable reward shall be attached to the act of rendering the more valuable service Of two rival services, give /offer/ greatest reward for the most valuable.

4. Note that the only shape in which reward /remuneration/ belongs to the present subject is the honorary shape.

That it is not for service in every shape that reward in this shape will be sufficient or even so much as apposite, is sufficiently evident /manifest/. Where, in the course of action whereby meritorious service has been rendered loss has been suffered by money expended profit does not commence, reward does not commence till compensation has been made for the full amount of the loss: and in the account of money must be comprehended that which in the time in question would have been received by the individual in question in return for labour expended

Moreover if by the reward conferred it be intended to purchase at the hands of other individuals future contingent service, not only actual loss, but probable risk must be taken into the account.
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    Arrangements proper for producing the benefits proposed from factitious honor.

    2.

    Discarded here from the beneficial effects is addition to Monarchs power.

    3.

    Use naturally proposable, production of meritorious service to community, through Government or otherwise.

    If yes, it must be by notification of the meritorious service, quality and quantity, that retribution made be made by respect.

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    To maximize the usefulness of it in this way, is to maximize the value of the meritorious service produced by each acct, whereby honor is thus conferred.

    Ends here to be aimed at are —

    1. Value of such meritorious service maximized. 2. Expence of the reward minimized.

    5.

    Consider and or here 1. In each occasion, for service to be produced, benefit of reward must outweigh burthen of service. 2. The greater the service, the greater the award worth giving for it. 3. Of rival services, to obtain the most valuable offer the greatest reward for it.

    6.

    Sole shape here in question the honorary not for service in all shapes is reward in thus sufficient, or unapt.

    Where by the service loss in money is sustained, remuneration commences not till after loss fully compensated.

    So as to loss in time and labour sold for money.

    If by the reward, future contingent service be intended to be obtained, not only actual past loss but originally probable loss must be considered.

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    By apt and adequate notification of past service rendered, i.e. by honor thus conferred, the maximum of future service may be obtained at the minimum of expence: for the value of the reward thus rises with d o. of the past service rewarded by it.

    8.

    Facts proper to be notified here are — 1. Quality of the service. 2. Quantity of d o. 3. Individually whom rendered. 4. Circumstances constitutive of its value 5. Circumstances constitutive of the burthen of rendering it.

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    Judgment of remuneration its contents. 1. Declaration of meritoriousness — brief reference had to judgment appointing individual punishment in criminali.

    2. Publication of the particulars of the meritorious service as above: appointing 1.Typographical form 2. N o. of copies printed 3. How to be disposed of.

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    Aggregate of these remuneratory judgments, or reports of Remuneratory judgments.

    The Register of Meritorious Service, or Meritorious Service Register: or good-Desert Book.

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    Analogous could be ill-desert Book

    11.

    Classification of contents, at first chronological only: when a certain quantity of matter has accumulated add Logical or say Methodical d o.

    12.

    Acquiring from analogy the expence of such adjudication need not be grudged.

    1. Not grudged is the expence of contestation, concerning any the smallest reward claimed by an individual at the hands of an individual on the score of ordinary service rendered.

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    Without such proof and

    contestation, or opportunity

    of contestation, no

    reward at public expence

    should be given: thus alone

    it is given on.

    14.

    Of service not great enough

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    On the other hand /But/ that which never has been disputed, nor seems likely to be in any direct way disputed is - that in each individual instance of the reward conferred the quantity ought to bear a correct proportion to the quantity of the service that is the quantity of happiness /felicity/ actually or probably produced by the service

    Moreover that at any rate the reward ought to be a proportioned /in proportion/ between service and service: in so much as /that/ as between two services the one productive /pregnant/ of more good than the other, the reward given for that which is productive of least good ought not to be so great as the reward given for that which is productive of the greatest quantity of good: much less still greater

    If there were a shape in which the collection of reward did not involve in it the imposition of tax in that shape the matter of reward might be given blindfold and in short ought so to be: it should be given not to this or that individual only or this or that aggregate of individuals but to all mankind without reserve. For who is the individual who by one being endowed with an ordinary store of benevolence would not on every occasion be made more happy if by the same operation no other were made less happy?

    But there exists not /scarcely exists/ that shape or that occasion on which the matter of reward can be known to be conferred by the act of government without its involving in itself /its composition/ the evil of a tax: certainly if there be any such shape, factitious dignity is not that shape.
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    3. Every honor that has been conferred on any man in whose instance it is not clear that extraordinary service to the public has in any shape is conferred in a more particular manner at the expence of all those by whom extraordinary service to the public has really been rendered: it is felt by them as an injury. It has always for its tendency, and to an unmeasureable extent for its effect, the preventing men in general from taking on themselves any extraordinary burthen for the purpose of rendering to the public in any shape extraordinary service.

    Evil 3. Burthen to the meritorious unhonored.

    By Honor by publication /Publication/ of service secures to every extraordinarily meritorious individual, for service past and thence for services to come, the exact portion of honor which in a comparative as well as absolute point of view is most apt with relation to the service. No injury does it to any men: to men in any number it may produce uneasiness: but in no instance can the uneasiness be productive of, or accompanied by, any such sensation as the sensation /conception/ of injustice - of injustice done to any one by him by whom the title to the honour has been adjudged