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Whether the Monarchy be pure or mixt the interest of the Monarch is essentially a sinister interest.

Of every mixt Monarchy the perpetual tendency is to become a pure Monarchy: and in case of tranquillity, sooner or later such tendency can not consistently with the nature of man fail of being carried into effect.

Of the sinister interest when coupled with adequate power capable of giving effect to it /to its tendency/ the ultimate effect is /may be stiled/ the consummation of the sinister sacrifice

The consummation of the sinister sacrifice has place when by any addition made to the quantity of the matter of wealth endeavoured to be exacted for his own use from the other members of the community no further addition can actually be made: when taxation has arrived at its ne plus ultra™`.

In every pure Monarchy taxation is at every point of time at its ne plus ultra™` with reference to that time.

In a mixt Monarchy in which taxation has not yet arrived at that point it is still tending towards that point. It may have arrived at that point and still continue a mixt Monarchy. But as in this case there will be a continual striving to add to the quantity of wealth collected by taxation, and on the part of the people a correspondent repugnance and reluctance to /in the course of the endeavours to/ overcome /surmount/ that reluctance there will be many continual additions to the quantity of power: till at length all power of resistance being taken from all the other members of the community the mixt Monarchy will have been been converted /be passed/ into a pure one.

For any length of time the forms of the mixt Monarchy may remain and will be likely to remain: but the condition of the people will not be in any respect the better for these forms. The forms of mixt government remained under the tyrant Caesars.