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Of this same connection the other bond is fear: in the breast of the Monarch,

fear of that resistance and retribution which at the hands of his subjects a

certain portion of infelicity produced in their breasts, by the exertions made

for the encrease of his felicity at the expence of theirs, may incidentally

become productive. To no Monarch can the subject many ever have /ever/ failed or

ever cease, to be objects of contempt and hatred: contempt, on the score of

their deficiency in respect of those instruments of enjoyment which he has been

suffered by them to heap up accumulate upon himself at their expence, and on the

score of the intellectual weakness manifested by their patience under a course

of unceasing injury: a patience produced by the conjunct powers of force,

intimidation, corruption and delusion exercised by him on their minds.

In so far as by the consumateness of their patience his contempt of them is

rendered proportionably consummate, no such affection as that of hatred takes

place: there is no cause for it. But, no sooner is the patience seen to give way

to impatience than the contempt begins to give way, and hatred to take its

place: and the less intense the contempt is, the more intense is the hatred.

To a certain degree hatred can never fail to have place: for, his desires being

constantly and necessarily insatiable and encreasing, no gratification which

their patience and obsequiousness are ever disposed to afford, or are so much as

capable of affording can ever keep pace with him. But when the united powers of

force, intimidation, corruption and delusion beginning to fail, depredation and

oppression have on their part produced discontent, and in the train of

discontent, disaffection, disobedience, resistance and insurrection have in his

imagination become visible, then it is that, in proportion to the fear excited

by the prospect, contempt diminishes and hatred swells.