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[clxii. 168]
1820 May 23
Emancipation Spanish
' 7 Rulers gainers
'. 4. Factitious dignity
Every man possessed of a title is the author of injury to every man /untitled man/ who but for the title would have obtained more respect that the titled man would have obtained /may behold a/ the titled man is the author of injury, one who robs him of his due.
Whatever good is done by titles, that and more can be done and is done much better without titles
Take away titles every man is judged of according to his works. Establish titles /Suffer titles to arise/ Keep titles on foot every man is judged of according to his title.
With the single exception of the military class (the naval included) under a government maintained /supported/ by corruption, a title instead of being /so far from being good/ evidence of meritorious service is as far as it is evidence of any thing evidence of ill-desert, of ill desert exemplified /manifested/ // exercised[?]// by subserviency in some shape or other to the system of misrule: of some act or acts by which the sacrifice of universal to particular and sinister interest is in some way or other facilitated[?] and /or/ encreased.
Suppose even that real service - service really meritorious[?] really conducive to the public interest has been rendered by every individual by whom the title in question is possessed /borne/. Even in this case it does more harm than good: it places the least meritorious on a level with the most meritorious. Though /While/ as between the persons possessed of it it establishes a distinction such as it is, with reference to all those who are not possessed of it, yet as between one and another of those who are possessed of it, it obliterates all distinctions
When thus judged according to his works, the judgment given is given in the way of universal suffrage; and this with that genuiness which can not have place without secresy of suffrage.
When the judgment is thus given according to his works, in this case to the utmost benefit which such a certificate can confer, nothing but correspondent publicity is wanting. In a state of society in which no signs of thought but those evanescent ones called words
spoken, are in use, this publicity is proportionably limited: from the invention and use of writing it receives encrease from the invention of printing it receives the maximum of increase, with no other deduction than [...?] such as in each creation /use/ by the government of the country made from it by the restraints imposed on the liberty of the press.
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Title: [1819 Decr 3 §.6 Bentham’s Radical]Description: 1819 Decr 3 §.6 Bentham’s Radical §.6 Reform Necessary §.6 Means employed for supporting the delusion 5 He who manifests respect to factitious dignity is necessary to all the mischief done by means of it. Factitious Dignity - Of all the instruments of misrule one of the most mischievous is that by which the opinion[?] of most[?] is attached to factitious dignity is the most degrading to the minds on which by many of these instruments the delusion on which that action depends have been propagated with success. Suppose no such instruments no such deceptious evidence[?] to have place, opinion causing most and machines[?] serves will have nothing to direct and form it but reality of such reason[?]. Every man would be judged according[?] to his works. When on[?] a man has no chance for obtaining respect for other cause than that of his good behaviour it is his interest to behave well: the quantity of respect he receives will be greater and greater the greater the degree to which he has behaved well: in case of extra service rendered to the public at large, the greater the value of that service. When tokens of respect is received by a man for other cause than that of good behaviour, the greater the quantity of respect due to the receiver, the greater the interest he has in not behaving well. Be his situation in life what it may, good behaviour can not be maintained without the making of some sacrifices: of sacrifices of personal interest in other shapes to a man’s interest in respect /on the score/ of reputation. But if good be it in what shape it may, without the sacrifice which a man can obtain good in any other shape, he will not make sacrifice.
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Title: [[clx. 255] 1822 July 9 Constitut]Description: [clx. 255] 1822 July 9 Constitut. Code Rationale Securities Factitious honor ?. Expository matter ? Proof of merit fallacious To /With/ the word merit if any clear idea is attached to it is attached /stands associated/ the idea of service: for by him to whom merit is ascribed, suppose no service rendered or endeavoured to be rendered to any body, the idea of merit evaporates and leaves the word in a state of non-significance. /Moreover/ If then in virtue of /according to the intimation given by/ the dignity conferred on /ascribed to/ him and the claim /alledged title/ to respect given to him, he has rendered service to any body it must have been service of the meritorious kind: service by the rendering of which the existence of merit has been displayed This /Moreover this/ service must have had something extraordinary in it - in its nature: something whereby it stands distinguished from ordinary service from service in those shapes in which it is customarily rendered by every body to every body by every dealer for example to his customer by every customer to his dealer - by every seller to his purchaser, by every purchaser to his seller. As in the case of service so in the case of respect the value /worth/ of it if it has any must consist either of a certainty (as in case of a past event /where the event is past/) or of a probability of pleasure in some shape or other experienced or pain in some shape or other escaped from /averted/ and not experienced. Laying all together - the intimation given /conveyed/ by the /an/ act by which a title of honor is conferred is - that the individual on whom it is conferred has in some determinate shape or other rendered to some individual or individuals or to the whole community together, service of a meritorious and in some way or other [...?] of an extraordinary cast /kind/, and has thereby shewn /proved/ himself to be possessed of dignity - i.e. by such service to have given himself a title to receive at the hands members of the community in question at large in general, tokens of respect, of the existence of the sentiment of respect in relation to him in their minds in relation to him, as if in payment or part payment of such service.
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