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[clx. 394] 1822 Oct. 17 Constitut
[clx. 394]

1822 Oct. 17

Constitut. Code

I Securities

Public Opinion

Sections Aristocrat

Devices

2 Opinions

Taste

Addend. Disgusting a Superlative above flagitious. This, to render taste the foundation of morals and politics - Aristocrats being the arbiters of taste.

Be this as it may in regard to interest, the inquiry requires that it be stated how the matter stands in regard to Opinions. For, in the tribunal of Opinion, the Opinions of the ruling few i.e. /and thence/ the suffrages /opinions/ of the ruling few will be continually manifesting themselves, and in the character of Securities against Misrule or in the character of causes of it will be acting with the weight which in fact belongs to them

But the opinions will be governed /determined/ by the interests: the opinions declared, by the interests felt.
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