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[clx. 285] 1822 July 8 Constitut
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1822 July 8

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Note (a)?

Securities

Factitious honor

?.4. Evils produced by it

Note (a)

Of this superfoetation of evil the most disastrous case is that which has place where the Monarch of a country receives a higher title: a Monarch with a title inferior to that of King, the title for example of King. To a King not to speak of a sceptre or a Palace belong a Crown, and a throne and a Crown: to this pair of implements a quality called splendor is necessary: the throne must have gold above it: the crown besides gold, pieces of natural glass called diamonds: by these ingredients or appendages by the help of a little manual labor, splendor in the physical sense is constituted. But to splendor in the physical sense must be added splendor in a superior sense, the metaphorical or hyperphysical sense. Appetite in all shapes is stimulated by the new title: the quantity of his superfluities must receice encrease: the quantity of the superfluities enjoyed by his Courtiers and his living instruments of government must be encreased: the number of these instruments themselves must receive encrease. Being admitted into the holy circle and fraternity of Kings his appearance must in every thing be if possible upon a par with theirs. The story /apophthegm/ /fable/ of the frog and the ox is realized /exemplified/ but with a disastrous variation. In the fable it was by himself that the frog was inflated /strained/ till he burst. Since a crown has been put by the English Ox upon the largest frog of Belgium, to raise himself upon a level with his creator

It is not by themselves but by the overgrown frog at the head of them, by the great frog with a crown on his head that the little frogs are burst.
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