[xxxvi. 106]

1822 July 1.

Constitut Code

Supreme Operative

I. Monarch

1. Morals

Lords veto Aristocratical Section of Public Opinion Tribunal paralysing democratic do.

Not merely in the exercise of his political power - not merely in the public part of his life, but in the private part of his life, the natural tendency not to say the constant effect of his situation is to place it not at the top but at the bottom of the scale of moral worth, and this whether the influence of the self-regarding principle or that of the purely social principle namely sympathy - be considered. By the purely self-regarding principle the more urgent the need a man feels himself to have of the kindness and free good will of others, the more anxious /strenuous/ and steady will be his exertion for the obtaining it: the less the need the less strenuous The kindness and free good will and thence upon /as/ occasion /calls/ the good offices the services of others are in so far as /where/ power of remuneration is wanting no otherwise to be obtained than by demonstration of the like kindness, in effect and in endeavour a man's own part as towards them: the stronger a mans need of the effective benevolence of others the stronger the inducement he has for the manifesting effective benevolence as towards them: an inducement which in this way self-regarding prudence is sufficient /suffices/ to afford: the less the need, the less strong the inducement. But the Monarch is of all men the man who by a vast amount has least need of kindness and free good will and free good offices and free services at the hands of others - of the fruits of effective benevolence unmixt with those of self-regarding prudence. For whatsoever good things it be that in other situations men are indebted for to effective benevolence, it is in his power to command partly /in part/ by his punitive force /power/, in other part by remuneration.

So the more extensively a man feels himself exposed to ill treatment at the hands of others, the stronger is the inducement he has to bestow upon them good treatment upon them, for the purpose of averting from him the effects of such their ill-will: the less extensive the exposure, the less the inducement. But the Monarch is of all men the one who stands the least extensively exposed to ill treatment at the hands of others: he is in a more especially degree protected /guarded/ against it by his /the/ punitive /branch of his/ power, and again by the remunerative, the /[...?] of the/ assistance and support considered which in the way of purchase, and without need of kindness on their part, it puts him in a condition to command on every occasion at the hands of others.