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[clxii. 178]
1820 May 23
Emancipation Spanish
'. 7. Rulers gainers
'. 4 Rulers gainers
Factitous dignity
[...?] of parasite[?] Lord Wellington, of despotism, Lord Banks.
To deprive men of these titles to /efficient causes of/ respect spurious as they are would be a harsh measure, and what is more not a possible one. Of power a man may be deprived: but of factitious dignity - and in particular of factitious dignity manufactured by this instrument, a man can not be deprived. Events that have had place you can not cause not to have had place: a man who instead of a Mister [...? [...?] with his surname after it has been in use to be spoken to by a Sir with his /a/ Christian name after it you can not cause him not to have been so spoken to
But though in a direct way /mode/ this could not be done there is an indirect way /mode/ in which it might be done. Only by means of being an evidence /a cause/ of distinction, an attribute /a possession/ peculiar to a certain class of man Take away the distinction, you take away the factitious dignity: you have the possession of it a possession of no greater nor other quantity of respect than what his conduct and character suffice of themselves to cover /invest/ him with. /bestow upon him./ In England if all men[?] past and future were created baronets, there would be an end of baronetcy. In England, or In Spain if all men present and future were rendered Dukes, there would be an end of Dukedoms If all men were created Grandees of the first class there would be an end of Grandeeships of the first class. But the enoblement[?] it would be necessary should cover the whole field: otherwise what was taken from the class abolished /extinguished/ would be left and given to the classes not abolished and the people at large would be none the better for the change. If all men were made Grandees of the first class and the Grandeeship of the first class thus abolished, the Grandees of the second class would take their place. And this second state of the country would not be better than the first.
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Title: [[clxii. 173] 1820 May 23 Emancipation]Description: [clxii. 173] 1820 May 23 Emancipation Spanish '. 7. Rulers gainers '. 4. Rulers gainers 10 Factitious dignity Military Order The English with the Duke of Wellington at their head got the better of the French. But the United-States men with General Jackson at their head got the better of those who got the better of the French. Had General Jackson had in prospect the dukedom of Wellington with the hundreds of thousand annexed to it for fear of its going a begging would he have killed wounded or taken so much a single man more than he had? Let him who thinks he can produce a [...?] for this assertion produce it When of whatever nations composed two armies engage, unless it is a drawn battle one or other can not but have the advantage In pursuance of their constant system the ruling few heap reward upon reward with a profusion to which there is no bounds, and then the cry is see what is to be done by reward! behold the exalting power of reward! When opposite to a French army headed by a General /commander/ with a French dukedom and its etceteras in possession or expectancy, stood an English army headed by a Commander with an English dukedom in possession or expectancy, unless the battle was a drawn one the one or the other could not fail to get the better. In either case would it by the Dukedom that the effect would be produced: that effect which of no such thing as a Dukedom had on either side ever been heard of could not fail to have had place? Would it in this case be because he had a Dukedom in his eye that the victor became victor? as well might you say /it be said/ it was because he had a handkerchief in his pocket.
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Title: [[clxii. 167] 1820 May 20 Emancipation]Description: [clxii. 167] 1820 May 20 Emancipation Spanish '. 7 Rulers gainers '. 4 Rulers gainers 10. Factitious dignity + note distinction between hereditary and non-hereditary begin with hereditary, an abuse upon an abuse. In some instances it is combined with money or power, or both: in others it has place in a separate state. With truth - with strict and incontestable truth may this association be termed an unhappy one. It is a most mischievous one. By being a succedaneum, it is a substitute, and by being a substitute /this instrument if factitious and spurious/ an instrument of exclusion a bar operating to the exclusion of natural genius and real dignity. It is a /an efficient/ cause of whatsoever qualities in human conduct stand opposite to such natural real dignity: it operates as a reward, a premium, a bounty upon the possession and manifestation of those pernicious qualities, it operates as an inducement to a man to cherish and nourish in himself these pernicious qualities to the exclusion of the opposite useful ones Those useful ones are not capable of being manifested and possessed without self sacrifice of personal interest, sacrifice of the interest of the moment at least, to an amount more or less considerable. But for that which a man /he/ is in possession of or can obtain without sacrifice, man does not make sacrifice Instruments of factitious dignity - titles of honour the man who possesses possesses in every instance without sacrifice. + As it is an instrument of injury to all other men /men together/ in their collective capacity so is it to each man in proportion in his individual capacity. Of two boys see-sawing upon a board, the one can not rise but in proportion as another /the other/ is depressed. Of two men sitting together in an assembly room the one with the title can not be more respected but in proportion as the other without the title is less respected.
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Title: [[clxii. 171] 1820 May 23 Emancipation]Description: [clxii. 171] 1820 May 23 Emancipation Spanish '. 7. Rulers gainers 10 Factitious dignity If there were a case in which titles of honour and other instruments of factitious dignity were really useful - were really contributing to the production of meritorious service production of preponderant benefit to the community at large it would be the case in /of/ what is bestowed upon men belonging to the military profession But even in this case the effects of it may be pronounced so much pure evil - it may safely be asserted it produces /of it that it produces/ considerable evil and no good in any shape
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