June 1804

Procedure

Ends

Ch. False

' 2.1. Money.

1. Profit to the Sovereign in his private capacity.

In the bosom of the sovereign as in every other, the welfare of the governed is the true and proper end of government. In practice it ought to be taken for such: by which is meant neither more nor less than that it were better for them that it should be. There[?] in point of general utility. In point of fact, at the commencement of governments it never has been perhaps in any single instance. It is not at all natural that it should be. Man when he yields to the impulse of personal interest, swims with the stream: when to any other consideration he opposes it: and by what preponderant consideration should he be led to oppose it with effect?

As many become more and more enlightened, the resistance the quiet bloodless resistance - to measures by which the welfare of the people is sacrificed or thought to be sacrificed to the interest permanent or momentary - to the policy or caprice of the sovereign increases more and more. The particular and sinister interest of the individual or individuals of whom the sovereignty is concerned less and less consulted - the general interest of the whole community more and more.

Towards the acceleration of so desirable a change, constitutional law, a division and fortunate distribution of the powers of government does something, but civilisation, civilisation of the human intellect - in a word the increase and disseminisation of literature among persons of all ranks does more. In Denmark the Monarch is not less absolute than Morocco In Denmark, people are well governed, contented and happy, increasing in population as far as the obstacles of [...?] and climate[?] permit. In Morocco tyrannised, without security for person or property in the condition of counsels waiting to receive sentence. But in Denmark the people are civilised as in the rest of Europe: in Morocco barbarous borne upon two legs.