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[clx. 274] 1822 July 5 Constitut
[clx. 274]

1822 July 5

Constitut. Code

Securities

Factitious Dignity /Honor/

?.4. Evils produced by it

Note to the list of good things operating as corruption add punishment i.e. the power of remitting it: also evil in other classes. Hence, tyrants the most praised.

?.4 Factitious honor in general - Evils produced by it - when as usual, arbitrarily conferred

When arbitrarily conferred either it is conferred either without so much as an indication of service in any specific shape rendered to the public, or if with any such indication without proof made and published of the reality of the facts on the supposed reality /ungrounded supposition/ of which it is /has been/ grounded.

1. If conferred without indication of service to the public that which is indicated by it is - that the individual on whom it is conferred is an object of favor to the person or persons by whom it has been conferred. In this case it is mischievous in /on/ the │   │ following ways /accounts/

Mischief /Evil/ 1. Burthen to the unhonoured at large

There are two sets of persons at whose expence is conferred every honour that is conferred: all the members of the community at large - the whole number of them: 2. those particular ones if any among whom peculiar benefits in this shape have been shared.

By the members at large, of any donation of this sort taken singly the expence is in but a small degree if in any degree felt. But when viewed in the aggregate, the expence to which communities have been subjected to in this shape, will, by every man, be more or less clearly perceived, and sensibly /acutely/ felt, in proportion as he thinks of it.

2 By those who, at the time when in the individual instance in question the honor was conferred, were already in possession of it, the expence is felt in a much more acute /intense/ degree. Witness the Dutchess of Northumberland who in the days of George the second was afraid of spitting /durst not spit/ out of her Coach as she passed along the street for fear of spitting upon a Lord.

Evil the second case. Burthen to the co-honored.
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    Securities

    6 Factitious honor, exclusion of

    ?.4. Evils produced by it

    1. Evils of factitious honor arbitrarily conferred as usual.

    In a general character. Of specific service to community, it affords either no indication or no proof.

    2. 1. Evils. Burthen to the unhonored at large. To those the │   │ by any single creature of factitious honor is insensible: not so the aggregate.

    3. 2. Evil 2. Burthen to the antecedently honored. By each new sharer, the value of the existing shares is diminished - Dutchess of Northumberland, her fears of spitting on a Peer.

    4. 3. Evil 3. Burthen to meritorious unhonored. Hence discouragement to meritorious service: encouragement to the sinister do. if any, by which the honor was procured.

    5. By encrease of honor - by natural honor by publication, no sense of injury is produced uneasiness to the unhonored or less honored is an unavoidable evil, and outweighed by the extra service naturally produced by the competition.

    6. 4. Evil 4. Evil by contribution to corruption fund.

    The other elements of the corruption fund, power and money, can not be kept out of Ruler's hands: without them, Governmt. could not exist: to minimize them is all that can be done.

    7. 5. Evil 5. Evil of demoralization by sinister independence: lessening dependance on good behaviour, by lessening sensibility to the force of the popular or moral sanction.

    8. See above how by an external instrument of felicity, as such, this effect is produced.

    In possession it operates as a bond of union with co-possessors, by the use of the sinister interest in which they share: in expectation as an instrument of corruption of inducement, of temptation to betray trust.

    9. 6. Evil 6. By pretence for depredation.

    For support of factitious dignity, money, if deficient, must be supplied: i.e. at people's expence. Obtained by swindling, honor carries depredation in the belly of it

    Nobles and other titularies added to the there predatory classes.

    10. Operative rationale.

    1. Factitious honor left bare of opulence the natural source of respect, contempt will naturally substitute itself: decomposition effected, the false colour varnishes. "Wearing this, the man being a poor creature, what is he good for?"

    Discovered in the poor man its worthlessness may thus be recognizsed in the rich

    2. Fellow dignitaries fear of sharing in his contempt.

    3. Sympathy for his suffering

    11. 7. Evil 7. Evil by sanction given to imposture - by encouragement and establishment given to delusion on the part of the party deluding - thence moral debasement - habit of employing deception.

    12. 8. Evil 8. By propagation of delusion on the part of the deluded: viz. the community at large - thence intellectual debasement: habit of being deceived.

    13. 9. Evil 9. Evil by aggravation of inequality.

    Inequality in power is necessary to existence of Government: in opulence unavoidable, and for security for subsistence, necessary - do. by factitious honor is needless and useless.

    14. 10. Evil 10. Evil by addition to Aristocratical Public Opinion Tribunal's anti social force.

    Seen above the hostility of this minority to the interest of the majority.

    6* Ways in which factitious honor produces evil in this shape -

    1. General:- by producing obsequiousness to Monarchs sinister will and do. interest, thence aid to sinister sacrifice: it being clear that against his will it can not be obtained; and that the chance of obtaining it by him who is tempted by it is as the degree of obsequiousness and the felicity of the course suggested: thence so many persons thus tempted, so many obsequious to the sinister will, interest, and sacrifice.

    6** 2. Particular evil on this or that occasion promoting misconduct by overpowering the punitory and restraining force with which Public opinion Tribunal acts against it. As a reward for the sinister and dishonorable aid suppose the honor conferred: the mark of honor is seen by every body: the dishonorable conduct known to comparatively few: by the factitious honor the natural honor is covered over and drowned: incalculable the degree in which man may thus be rendered shame-proof and the number that may thus be led into the like similar courses.
  • Title: [1822. July 18 Constitut. Code]
    Description: 1822. July 18

    Constitut. Code

    1.

    Evils of factitious honor arbitrarily conferred as usual. In a general character of specific service to community, it affords either no indication or no proof.

    2.

    1. Evils. Burthen to the unhonored at large To those the by any single creature of factitious honor is in sensible: not so the aggregate.

    3.

    2. Evil 2. Burthen to the antecedently honored. By each new sharer, the value of the existing shares is diminished. Duchess of Northumberland, her years of spitting on a Peer.

    4.

    3. Evil 3. Burthen to meritorious unhonored. Hence discouragement to meritorious service: encouragement to the sinister d o. if any by which the honor was procured.

    5.

    By encrease of honor by natural honor by publication, no sense of injury is produced uneasiness to the un honored or less honored is an unmeasurable evil, and outweighted by the extra service naturally produced by the competition.

    6.

    4. Evil 4. Evil by contribution to corruption fund. The other elements of the corruption fund, power and money, can not be kept out of Ruler's hands: without them, government could not exist: to minimize them is all that can be done.

    7.

    5. Evil 5. Evil of demoralization by sinister independence: lessening dependence on good behaviour, by lessening sensibility to the force of the popular or moral sanction.

    8.

    See above how by an external instrument of felicity, as such, this effect is produced. In possession if operates as a bond of union with co-possessors, by the use of the sinister interest in which they share in expectation as an instrument of corruption of inducement, of temptation to betray trust.

    9.

    6. Evil 6. By pretence for depredation. For support of factitious dignity, money, if deficient must be supplied: i.e. at people's expence obtained by swindling, honor carries depredation in the belly of it

    Nobles and their relatives added to the three classes.

    10.

    Operative rationale. 1. Factitious honor left bare of opulence the natural source of respect, contempt will naturally substitute itself: decomposition effected, the false colour varnishes. "Wearing "this, the man being a poor "creature, what is he good "for."

    Discovered in the peer man its worthlessness may thus be recognized in the act.

    11.

    7. Evil 7. Evil by sanction given to the imposture — by encouragement and establishment given to delusion on the part of the party deluding — thence moral debasement — habit of employing deception.

    12.

    8. Evil 8. By propagation of delusion on the part of the deluded: viz. the community at large thence in intellectual debasement: habit of being deceived.

    13.

    9. Evil 9. Evil by aggravation of inequality. Inequality in power is necessary to existence of Government: in opulence unavoidable, and for security for subsistence, necessary d o. by factitious honor is needless and useless.

    6

    * Ways in which factitious honor produces evil in the shape - 1. General: - by producing obsequiousness to Monarch sinister will and d o. interest, thence aid to sinister sacrifice: it being clear that against his will it can not be obtained; and that the chance of obtaining it by him who is tempted by it is as the degree of obsequiousness and the felicity of the course suggested: thence so many persons thus tempted, so many obsequious to the sinister will, interest, and sacrifice.

    6

    ** 2. Particular evil on this or that occasion promoting misconduct by overpowering the punitory and restraining force with which public opinion tribunal acts against it. As a reward for the sinister and dishonorable aid suppose the honor conferred: the mark of honor is seen by every body: the dishonorable conduct known to comparatively few: by the factitious honor the natural honor is covered over and drowned: incalculable the degree in which man may thus be rendered shame-proof and the number that may thus be led into the like similar courts.

    14.

    10. Evil 10. Evil by addition to aristocratical public opinion tribinal's anti social force. Seen above the hostility of this minority to the interest of the majority.
  • Title: [[clx. 275] 1822 July 5 Constitut]
    Description: [clx. 275]

    1822 July 5

    Constitut Code

    Factitious Honor

    ?4 Evils produced by it

    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