[xxxvi. 136]

1822 June 29

Constitut Code

Supreme Operative

I. Monarch

His interest sinister

II. Next as to intellectual virtue with relation to felicity say intellectual aptitude.

In proportion as knowledge and sound judgment as applied to the field of legislation encrease, the /this/ opposition of the interest of the Monarch to the rest of the community will become /becomes/ manifest and with it the want of virtue moral as well as intellectual betrayed by the patience /obsequiousness/ by which any such Office in the Official Establishment is suffered to have existence: the Office which may be stiled that of Malefactor General.

For the diminution and if possible destruction of aptitude /virtue/ in this form he has /sees before/ two resources: the extinguishing it altogether /extinction/, and the perversion of it.