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[clx. 286] 1822 July 8 Constitut
[clx. 286]

1822 July 8

Constitut. Code Rationale

Securities

Factitious honor

?.4. Evils produced by it

The language employed on this occasion demonstrates in how deplorable a degree the power /force/ of the judgment /intellect/ may be debilitated /subdued/ by the force of delusion and custom /prejudice/. Always in the character of an object of prime necessity is the furniture of the great Toy-shop /Baby House/ this mass of the instruments of corruptive and delusive influence spoken of. This which is so much worse than useless is spoken of as of more importance than the whole aggregate of those benefit the preservation of /securing of/ which constitutes the only compensation for the evils necessarily produced by government - the only reason why it is better than /circumstance that distinguishes it from/ a nuisance Not any the faintest colour of reason being capable of being given for it, it is constantly /on every occasion/ taken for granted in the character of an incontestable truth. Ask in what way it contributes in the character of a means to the supposed /pretended/ end, no answer will you get /receive/. Ask in what particulars the governments in which there is no such splendor lustre, support of dignity has place ask in what particulars they are the worse for the want /absence/ of it, no answer will you receive.

As in the situation of Monarch /King/ honor and dignity, require for their support splendor and lustre, that is to say money [...?] for the purpose out of the pockets of the people, so in every situation within the reach of the royal eyes. Hence it is that if a man be in a certain rank be in want of money whether it has been by misfortune or by prodigality or [...?] in any other shape that the want /gap/ has been produced, the deficiency is to be supplied at the expence of the laborious part of the people the productive classes are to be squeezed for money to fill it up. Incessant are the complaints of the expence of affording to the helpless many the lower order /productive classes/ those supplies without which starvation and death must of necessity be their fate: profound is the silence as to the expence of supplying to the extravagant in the higher order the means of further /ulterior/ extravagance. Grievous the complaints of the overgrowth of that part of the population for the subsistence /maintenance/ of which ,10 a year all [...? ...?] and all ages together included will suffice - no complaint of the overgrowth of that part for the maintenance of which ,100 a year will not suffice.
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    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

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