1821 Aug. 24

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namely in proportion to the /any/ influence which the subject many happen to have

in the choice and in the conduct of those same hands

To the production of so much of the felicity of the subject many as is secured as

above by their existence no exertion of the intellectual faculty on the part of

the Monarch is necessary. As to so much, between his felicity and theirs in the

quality of causes and effects no relationship in the direct line has place Of

This part the existence is therefore at all times certain: and it is the only

part that is so. But to the production of so much of their felicity to the

diminution of which a restraint is capable of being imposed by fear on his part

as above, more or less of thought /is/ on his part is necessary. For fear of

seeing his own felicity lessened by means of discontent on their part, it

becomes more or less an object with him to endeavour lessen /diminish/ it. Not

that on their account their felicity is an object with him in this case than in

the other: it is even still further from being so in this case than in the

other: for by this his fear of them his hatred of them is encreased: still

however it is an object with him: it is not as his own felicity is an ultimate

object - but it is an intermediate object.

hatred in proportion as the burthen meant principally for the subject many falls

upon them the sub-ruling few, or as the share allotted to them out of the

plunderage fails of being correspondent to their expectations

hatred of the Monarch in proportion and only in proportion as the burthen imposed

by him falls upon them, having incidentally place in their breasts and operating

in encrease of that fear by which alone as above any alleviation in the burthen

imposed upon the subject many is produced.

So in the case of the limited Monarchy. In the breasts of the sub-ruling few, as

towards the subject many, are produced the same antisocial affections, contempt

and hatred - with the vacillating effects produced by the intervention of fear:

as in the breast of the Monarch, and by the same causes: hatred and contempt,

antagonizing with one another, and exercising always disputed though always

conjunct dominion, as above.

In proportion as, by the apprehension of resistance at the hands of the subject

many, fear is produced in the Monarch's breast, a diminution more or less

considerable in the quantum of the sacrifice which he had been in use to make of

their happiness to his own, is a consequence not altogether incapable of taking

place. Of such fear it is true a proportionable degree of hatred can not fail to

be the result: the result will be relief or exacerbation according to the

comparative intensity &c. In this case the more intense his hatred of them

the less afflictive may at the same time be the treatment any receive at his

hands. The diminution in their unhappiness and the diminution in his happiness

have in this case one cause. That cause is fear - fear by which at the same time

his hatred of them is encreased and his ill usage of them is diminished, and

consequently their unhappiness more or less diminished: but still however it is

not by his hatred of them that the unhappiness is diminished: it is not by his

hatred of them but by his fear of them which was the cause of it.