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In proportion as, by the apprehension of resistance as above fear is produced in

the Monarchs breast, a diminution more or less considerable in the quantum of

the sacrifice which he has been in use to make of this happiness to his own - a

degree of relief from the burthen imposed by depredation and oppression - is a

consequence not altogether incapable of taking place. Of such fear, true it is

that a proportionable degree of hatred can not fail to be the result: and of

hatred, if exclusively listened to, the result would be - not the lessening but

the encrease of the sinister sacrifice:- not alleviation but aggravation of the

burthen. Here then in the Monarchs breast will be a conflict: a conflict between

the two affections - the self-regarding and the antisocial. In proportion as the

self-regarding prevails, alleviation of the burthen will be the effect, which

whether produced or no will at least have been aimed at: in proportion as the

antisocial prevails, aggravation will be the certain consequence. Most commonly

it is the antisocial that prevails: and thus it is that tyranny grows

unendurable and revolution ensues. It may seem almost a paradox to speak of the

antisocial affection as capable of prevailing over the self-regarding affection:

to say that in any instance it does so, is as much as to say that in that

instance a Monarch hates his subjects more than he loves himself. But to put a

restraint upon the antisocial affection requires self-restraint:- it requires

self-command and the more used a man is to command others the less used he is to

command himself. When he visits (as the phrase is) the objects of his hatred it

is still to his love of himself, that he administers its gratification, though

in a different shape.