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[clxiv. 182] 1820 June 23 Emancipation
[clxiv. 182]

1820 June 23

Emancipation Spanish

?. Interests opposite

In this instance too as in every other, the waste answers the double purpose of misapplied personal gratification, and corruptive influence: the lace work /gold/ with which the coats of /cloath/ of his Musicians Coat is hid from view, may at this or that moment keep the grown baby at quiet, and save him from doing greater mischief. Palaces and Streets of enormous /Egyptian/ dimensions may to him answer the purpose of, may serve him for, /compose for his use a substitute to/ a baby-house.

But it is the interest of the subject many, that of the aggregate these same instruments the quantity obtained by him should be as small as possible; or to speak more plainly and truly that the quantity should be equal to 0 /he should have none of them/. For not any the smallest quantity can he ever obtain that is not obtained at their expence: by not a single atom of it can he ever be the richer but they are the poorer for it.

Note (a) 8

Of the aggregate community composed of of the subject many added to the ruling one it is still the interest that on the supposition that the aggregate of the instruments of felicity could without prejudice to security be divided into equal portions equal in number to that of the individuals in the community so composed, of all these lots he should never have /one indeed, but never/ more than one For, as already observed, if by a thousand portions of the aggregate of the external instruments of felicity, possessed, each of them, by a single individual a thousand portions of felicity itself will be produced, yet /still/, by a thousand portions of that same aggregate possessed by a single individual, so far is it from being true that a thousand portions of felicity itself will be produced, that it will remain a question a disputable point, whether more than one be produced, whether even so much as one.

George the third was continually hailed by the appellation of the best of Kings: and a better it would not perhaps be easy to find any where. Five hundred thousand pounds a year in round numbers was that man in the first instance allowed to spend /expend/ at the expence /charge/ of the subject many in the endeavour to condense into his single person the matter of felicity: five hundred thousand pounds - a sum greater than is found sufficient to afford subsistence to 50,000 of them during the same time: others indeed, and besides the members of his own family, others in multitudes: for, forasmuch as to the capacity of a Monarchs stomach there are the same limits as to that of an ordinary man so neither in the case of any external instrument of felicity is it possible for any individual to derive his felicity in more than a certain quantity, but that whether he will or no, others must have their share
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