[xxxvi. 47]

1821 May 15

Constitut. Code

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Ch Delusion

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\PS\ Instruments of misrule - their comparative mischievousness.

1. Force is on this occasion out of the question.

2. Intimidation, on this occasion the question is, between intimidation, or say force and intimidation on the one hand and corruption and delusion on the other.

1. Evils produced by force and intimidation are -

1. Pain of actual sufferance, in so far as they are actually applied. This is confined to the actual sufferers and their immediate connections.

2. Pain of apprehension: viz. of like sufferance from like causes. This pervades the whole community, applying to every individual member of it.

A 3. A sense of coercion: viz compulsory and restrictive: A more particularly restrictive. This operates in a more particular manner in repression of productive labour and thence in diminution of the matter of abundance and means of subsistence: the sense of insecurity being general, the sense of insecurity in respect of property and thence in respect of the fruits of labour is involved in it.

In the case of corruption where corruption is the only instrument employed no one of all these evils has place.

So likewise in the case of delusion, where delusion is the only instrument, or corruption and delusion are the only instruments, none of all these evils has place

A Note stating the state of the Turkish and Spanish Government as compared with that of England in the misgovernment of which corruption and delusion have the greatest share.