[xxxvi. 109]

1822 June 28

Constitut Code

Supreme Operative

I. Monarch absolute

2. Intellectuals

2. Next as to intellectual aptitude. The branch of inaptitude opposed to appropriate intellectual aptitude is also in this case at his maximum. In the article /respect/ of moral aptitude the condition of the Monarch as such being that which has been described, towards the consequence is - that towards the greatest happiness of the greatest number, all that in the situation in question could be done by intellectual aptitude if raised to its maximum would be the preserving that same greatest number from such unhappiness /infelicity/ as should in the eyes of the Monarch not be contributory to his own felicity. But by the care taken of his own felicity at the expence of theirs, their infelicity on their part may be raised to a pitch /height/ to which no limit can be assignable. Take for example the case of Frederic the Great King of Prussia See the state of the people under his government as depicted by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams Diplomatic Resident of England at his Court, in the Appendix to The Earl of Orford's Memoirs London 1822.

But in comparison of other men who have had the advantages of what is called a liberal education, intellectual aptitude is in the situation of Monarch, by unchangeable causes placed at the lowest pitch

Of the two branches of intellectual aptitude appropriate knowledge is that in respect of which the deficiency is less considerable and less uniformly exemplified In the situation of Monarch, as in every other situation, man is necessarily for a length of time more or less considerable, placed by the infirmity attached to immaturity of age placed in a state of subjection. During his continuance in that state not only knowledge at large but knowledge in some sort and degree appropriate, is injected into the infirm and unresisting mind. Knowledge? but of what sort?

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