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[clxiv. 232]
1820 July 6
Emancipation Spanish
?.8. Corruptive influence
Ends and Means of Governt
Sinister sacrifice
Monarchs sacrificers
V. Delusion - Laudation of Monarchs - its mischievousness.
If in the situation of Monarch be the situation in which the passion /degree/ of selfishness is naturally and necessarily at its highest pitch, an opinion which should pronounce it as being at no higher level than in any other and lower situation can not but be a pernicious error - any opinion which it should place at a lower level /degree/ an error still more pernicious: any opinion which should place it at the lowest degree still more: any opnion which should consider it as not having any place at all, would in the highest possible degree be pernicious. For
The lower the degree of selfishness in other words the higher the degree of generosity is that is attributed to a man, the greater is the quantity of power, which in so far as moral character is the object of consideration, those by whom such generosity is attributed to him, will naturally be disposed to give /allow/ to him: or to acquiesce in his possessing and upon occasion to confer on him
But the greater the quantity of power a man has, the greater (it has been shewn) is the sinister sacrifice which at all times he is disposed to make
To contribute therefore to the augmentation of the power of /attached to the situation of/ the Monarch who ever he may be is to contribute to the sinister sacrifice: and willingly to suffer to remain to it any part of that power which at the time in question is attached to it -this too, though in a negative way is to make contribution to the sinister sacrifice
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Title: [[clxiv. 231] 1820 July 6 Emancipation]Description: [clxiv. 231] 1820 July 6 Emancipation Spanish ?.8. Corruptive influence Ends and Means of Governm t Sinister sacrifice Monarchs sacrificers Instance Ferdinands tortures Of the ratio of the force of self-regarding interest to social interest the measure will be compounded of the number of the persons whose interest a man is disposed to sacrifice to his own personal interest, and in the instance of each such other persons the magnitude of that interest: the degree of predominance will be in the direct ratio of this magnitude multiplied by the number of the persons in question, and in the inverse ratio of the magnitude of that interest of his own to which he is on each occasion disposed to make the sacrifice. In this compound ratio is the degree of selfishness Thus Give an example In so far as it is an object of disapprobation, preference of a mans own interest to other interests is termed selfishness Only where the ratio is inordinate can the sentiment of disapprobation so entertained be just and reasonable The degree of selfishness has for its measure The greater the quantity of /mans/ power a man has, the greater, unless in so far as any cause tending to diminish it /the quantity/ be assigned, is the degree of his selfishness. Insert power howsoever constituted - 1. by law 2. by wealth 3. by influence of understanding on understanding derived from reputation. The situation of Monarch of all others is the situation in which the greatest degree of selfishness ought to be looked for. In this situation, the expectable degree of selfishness to be looked for /expected/ will be as the quantity of the power attached to it.
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Title: [[clx. 284] 1822 July 20 Constitut]Description: [clx. 284] 1822 July 20 Constitut Code Rationale Securities 6 Factitious honor excluded ?. Evils produced by it In the hands of the conferrer of the honour, be he who he may, and in the hands of the Monarch in particular it is productive of evil in this shape in two different ways:- in a general way, by its existence; and in a particular way, by the particular application which, on each individual occasion, is liable to be made of it. By its existence in hands so situated, it holds out to every one the general assurance, that, to /by/ him who on any account is an object of the Monarch's displeasure, no good in this any more than in any other will be received: 2. that for obtaining the matter of good, in this as in any other shape by far the most promising course is to contribute if possible to the Monarch's pleasure, whatsoever be the means is the most promising not to say the only promising course that a man can take: In this way /Thus it is that/ so many persons as there are in the nation there are to whom it is a source of temptation, so many persons are there who are urged by it to do on all occasions the will of the one privileged individual /member of the community/ the Corrupter General at the expence of all the others, and thereby to make contribution each of them according to his means to the sacrifice of which he is High /Chief/ Priest - in a word the sinister sacrifice 2 Now as to the evil of which on this or that particular occasion in that situation it is apt and liable to be productive. In its character of a source of undue respect it may /enables him to/ overpower the tutelary force /power/ of the punitive branch of the power of the Public Opinion Tribunal. By the prospect of benefit in this shape an individual has been led (suppose) to minister to the Monarchs will by this or that act by which but for the counter-operation of this order for respect dishonor would have been cast upon him It would baffle calculation to say to what degree a man may might by this means be rendered proof against shame and in what a degree /multitude/ other men may by the view of factitious honor conferred /obtained/ by acts in themselves /naturally/ dishonorable, be led into the like sinister courses.
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