15 Jan y 1807

Facienda

V. Abolition of fees

By reward, by hope the spirits are exhilarated /exalted/, the current of ideas quickened, powers of mind as well as body invigorated. By punishment, by fear spirits are deadened /depressed/, current of ideas slackened, powers enfeebled.

Note that though the matter of salary be the matter of reward, yet strictly /properly/ speaking it is not by the force of reward, but by the force of punishment that in the case of salary without fees, the functionary is attached to his duty. The service that salary attaches to in the shape of reward, is not any special service rendered by the functionary in the exercise of his function, but the more general service, performed once for all - the service that consists in taking /charging/ upon him the obligation of rendering the particular service in which the exercise of his function consists /by the rendering of which the functions /several/ are exercised/.

The motive by which the functionary is attached to his functions is of the nature of punishment: fear of discomfort /[...?]/ in whatsoever lesser or greater penalty may be apprehended to be attached in each particular instance to the non-exercise or improper exercise of the function in question - to the violation of the obligations attached to the office.