[xxxvi. 108]

1822 June 30

Constitut Code

Supreme Operative

I Monarch

1. Moral

Thus it is that to every practical purpose in the situation of Monarch inaptitude in that branch which stands opposed to appropriate moral aptitude should in all places and all times be regarded as consummate Be the man who he may, that thing whatever it be by the contemplation of which no uneasiness is produced in his mind, he can have no desire to /that thing, be it what it may, it is not possible he should have any desire to/ remove. Be the sufferers among his subjects ever so numerous - be the sufferings of each ever so intense ever so long protracted, seen or unseen, no uneasiness capable of procuring a relaxation of those same sufferings can ever find entrance into a breast so situated. Why? because experience being altogether wanting, no conception of those same sufferings can ever have had place in any such high-seated breast. In a word - To sympathy of affection, correspondent sympathy of conception is indispensable.