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1822 May 10

Economy etc Text?

[...?] = Glory

National power defensive good: offensive, bad.

May 12 1822. The matter of this sheet containing arrangements condemned may it not be inserted after the matter which contains arrangements recommended?

5 The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that no functionary be located by lot /chance/: much less by birth: in no case otherwise than by nomination or election.

Q. Why not by chance?

A. Reason Suppose a certain individual endowed with the maximum of appropriate aptitude, chance renders the location of that individual improbable, in the ratio of the number of individuals to whom chance allows a /admitts a/ possibility of being admitted /admission/, to one

Q. Why not by birth?

A. Take for example the case where the whole of the operative power in the highest grade legislative and super-executive is in a single hand. Taking birth for the efficient cause of location i.e. proximity in the line of generation /proximity/ to the last individual located, the improbability of the maximum of the aggregate of appropriate aptitude will be at the highest pitch, more particularly in respect of moral aptitude: the probability will be on the side of the maximum of inaptitude /that branch/ which corresponds to and is opposite to appropriate moral aptitude.