JB_021_204.xml

Title: [1823 Feb 25 Greece. J.B. to Greek Legislators]

Description: 1823 Feb 25 Greece. J.B. to Greek Legislators Five trials etc 4. Revenge

As by the words ”hatred• and ”contempt• respectively no determinate degree of

the respective emotions affections and passions respectively indicated by them

respectively is marked out, nor consequently any degree how slight and gentle so

ever excluded, hence it is that to take for the subject of discussion any one

existing arrangement of government in the country in question or any one act

performed by any of the individuals by /among/ whom the powers of government are

exercised /shared/, and at the same time to hold it up to view in the character

of one by the contemplation of which a sentiment of disapprobation with the view

of a change has been produced to do this without doing that by which a tendency

to produce hatred at least towards those by whom the supposed pernicious

arrangement is supported or the supposed pernicious act been exercised, is

plainly impossible.

Meantime of any observation made whether in oral discourse or in writing on the

established arrangements or incidental acts and measures of those by whom the

powers of government are exercised the only possible use is the diminution of

the quantity of evil which in this or that shape has place in this or that

instance the indication of this or that arrangement or this or that practice in

the character of a proper object of disapprobation, on this or that account on

each occasion mentioned: and thus doing that in relation to which its tendency

to bring the government or the governors one or both into hatred and contempt

can not consistently with truth be denied.

This being considered to interdict under penalties all public discussion of the

measures of government and to interdict by the like penalties every thing that

has a tendency to bring the government and governors into hatred and contempt

are thenceforth but two different names for exactly the same thing.

JB_024_420v.xml

Title: [1821 Aug. 24 Codification Offer '. 5 Draughtsman]

Description: 1821 Aug. 24 Codification Offer '. 5 Draughtsman single

Of this same connection the other bond is fear: in the breast of the Monarch,

fear of that resistance and retribution which at the hands of his subjects a

certain portion of infelicity produced in their breasts, by the exertions made

for the encrease of his felicity at the expence of theirs, may incidentally

become productive. To no Monarch can the subject many ever have /ever/ failed or

ever cease, to be objects of contempt and hatred: contempt, on the score of

their deficiency in respect of those instruments of enjoyment which he has been

suffered by them to heap up accumulate upon himself at their expence, and on the

score of the intellectual weakness manifested by their patience under a course

of unceasing injury: a patience produced by the conjunct powers of force,

intimidation, corruption and delusion exercised by him on their minds.

In so far as by the consumateness of their patience his contempt of them is

rendered proportionably consummate, no such affection as that of hatred takes

place: there is no cause for it. But, no sooner is the patience seen to give way

to impatience than the contempt begins to give way, and hatred to take its

place: and the less intense the contempt is, the more intense is the hatred.

To a certain degree hatred can never fail to have place: for, his desires being

constantly and necessarily insatiable and encreasing, no gratification which

their patience and obsequiousness are ever disposed to afford, or are so much as

capable of affording can ever keep pace with him. But when the united powers of

force, intimidation, corruption and delusion beginning to fail, depredation and

oppression have on their part produced discontent, and in the train of

discontent, disaffection, disobedience, resistance and insurrection have in his

imagination become visible, then it is that, in proportion to the fear excited

by the prospect, contempt diminishes and hatred swells.

JB_024_466v.xml

Title: [1821 Aug. 26 Codification Offer '.5 Draughtsman]

Description: 1821 Aug. 26 Codification Offer '.5 Draughtsman single

So in the case of the limited Monarchy. In the breasts of the sub-ruling few, as

towards the subject many, are produced the same antisocial affections - contempt

and hatred - as in the breast of the Monarch, and by the same causes: hatred

towards the Monarch having, however, incidentally place in their breasts, and,

by the apprehension of it operating in encrease of that fear on his part, to

which the subject many are indebted for whatever alleviation their burthen ever

experience: hatred of the Monarch, in proportion as the burthen intended

principally for the subject many presses upon them the sub-ruling few, or as the

share allotted to each man out of the plunderage fails of coming up to his

expectations.