JB_164_124.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 124] 1820 May 23 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 124]

1820 May 23

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

?.4. Rulers gainers

10 Corruptive influence

trust in such sort as to sacrifice /by sacrificing/ to the particular interest common to themselves and the Corrupter-General the Monarch /Monarch/ who whether he will or no is their constant and perpetual corrupter the /universal/ interest of the whole.

In a word to their primary and universal value as instruments of enjoyment these objects of universal desire add in this case a secondary and particular value - that which belongs to them as instruments of security; instruments of security for securing to the possessors, corrupting and corrupted, their respective shares in the profits of misrule.

JB_164_185.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 185] 1820 June 23 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 185]

1820 June 23

Emancipation Spanish

?. Interests Opposite

Not that by this subserviency of the subject many to the will governed /guided/ /determined/ by the separate and sinister interest of the supremely ruling one, the authors /supporters and propagators/ of the imposture - his advisers in possession or in expectancy would be gainers, were it in his power to make /as compleatly to make/ to such his will and interest a sacrifice as compleat of their interests as of those of the subject many. But no such compleat sacrifice ever is it, or ever can it be in his power to make. Of the aggregate of these same instruments of felicity not an atom can he at any time get or retain in his possession but by the intervention of subservient hands /a multitude of subservient individuals/. To each of these individuals according to the situation he occupies and the means belonging to that situation, a share must be allowed: a share in the matter composed of the external instruments of felicity, operating in this way /on this occasion/ in the character of the matter of reward. By punishment were it in the nature of the matter of punishment to be sufficient to such a purpose, the end might indeed be compassed by the ruling one without expence to him. But though by fear of punishment alone service in some shapes may be produced and in any quantity, as witness Negro and all other slavery, yet by this harsh instrument it is not in all shapes that service can be produced. Moreover governing by punishment alone, the Monarch would behold no faces but frowning ones: governing more by reward than punishment he beholds none but smiling ones: and as by frowning faces in view, felicity is diminished, so by smiling ones it is encreased.

JB_164_126.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 126] 1820 May 23 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 126]

1820 May 23

Emancipation Spanish

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?.8. Corruptive influence

?.4. Rulers gainers

12. Self encreasing quality

12. Of the abovementioned instruments of felicity it has been seen that with little exception each operates as an instrument for the production and preservation of the rest. in the like manner and with as little exception power in all these its shapes tends /operates/ by the whole of its mass to give encrease to itself. But with what rapidity so ever the power itself encreases, the correspondent desire the desire of more encreases with still greater rapidity does the correspondent desire - the desire of having more, encrease. It is absolutely satiable. In the breast of the ruler himself it has no bounds and is essentially incapable of ever having any - what bounds are set to it are set to it by the condition - the unchangeable condition of the people: in the first place by their disposition to patience; in the last place by their capacity of endurance.

The greater the quantity of power in all its shapes which the rulers have in their possession, the greater is the facility they have for effecting - what is sure to be their desire and their endeavour - the sacrifice to the utmost degree possible in every shape the universal to their own particular and sinister interest.

But the greater the extent to which in respect of territory and population the dominion of the rulers of Spain stretches itself over the several provinces of Spanish America, and the greater the amount of the power possessed and exercised by them in or over each province, the greater is the facility they have to sacrifice each to his own personal interest and the other particular interests of the several /whichever different/ classes he belongs to, the universal interest: the greater the facility, and therefore as hath been the stronger the desire.