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1821 July 15

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As to ease it is in this case that ease and that alone which is the result of inaction where action is a duty: incontestably a moral duty; nor yet howsoever violated, ever denied to be a political one: a duty, as it is in the case as where a public functionary as such receives public money from the people in consideration of service undertaken to be rendered to the people.

As to ease in the sense in which it is synonymous to peace of mind it is not only not the same with but incompatible with that ease which consists in the violation of the compact /engagement abovementioned/ whereby to the extent of a mans faculties service is engaged to be rendered to the public as above. He sees that he is a dead weight pressing upon the people - he sees that he is seen to be so: he sees that in their eyes his existence is a nuisance.