[xxxvi. 103]

1822 June 28

Constitut. Code Rationale

Supreme Operative

I Monarch absolute

1. Morals

He finds them joining one and all in the assurance that his greatest happiness is the only right and proper end of government: that if the happiness of any other individual is a fit object of regard to him or any one else, it is only in so far as the happiness of the individual subject /servant/ may chance to be an object of regard and sympathy to the universal master.

To /In the eyes of/ this one Member of the community all the others will be objects of regard on the same footing /a footing similar to that/ as working cattle are in the eyes of the proprietor. On the part of an ill-tempered Monarch the treatment experienced by them will be that sort of treatment which is experienced by cattle at the hands of an ill-tempered Master. The best that can happen to them in the hands of the best tempered Monarch is to be treated upon as good a footing as cattle are treated upon by a good tempered Master

But at /in/ the hands of the best tempered Monarch they never will in any instance be treated upon as good a footing as in the hands of a good tempered it is common for his cattle say his horses for example to be treated. His horses will be continually in his presence: in the event of their being ill-treated by the negligence or malice of a servant, the ill treatment they have undergone /suffered/ will manifest itself by visible signs: by the appearance of their suffering the sympathy of the Master will be called into action. Knowing that the quantity of service he can obtain from them without prejudice to their appearance is limited - and that so sure as he endeavours to obtain any more their appearance will and their value in his eyes will be deteriorated he will never work them to excess No determined and permanent resistances to his will being ever opposed by them and The inferiority of their minds to his being manifest, they will on no occasion be the objects of his ill-will or of his anger: among trained horses there is no such thing as a determinately and constantly rebellious horse.