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1822 July 4

Constitut. Code

Factitious Dignity /Honor/

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1 Note that In the instance of every such service, the mass of reward in all its parts taken together must afford such a mass of benefit to the individual in question as shall be sufficient to outweigh in his mind the burthen sustained by the rendering of it. In so far as public affection and respect enter into the composition of the means of purchase, this relation between quantity of service and quantity of reward will require to be considered. Benefit of reward must outweigh burthen of service.

2. The greater the value of the service, that is to say of the benefit, the greater is the burthen which those /he/ on whom it depends in the instance in question will be disposed to take upon himself on the occasion and for the purpose of his rendering it. The greater a service, the greater the reward worth giving for it.

3. If on any occasion there be two services so circumstanced that for the individual or individuals in question either may /can/ be performed but both /not both/ of them not, any two masses of reward that shall appear capable of being earned by the performance of the two services respectively should be so apportioned, that the receipt of more valuable reward shall be attached to the act of rendering the more valuable service Of two rival services, give /offer/ greatest reward for the most valuable.

4. Note that the only shape in which reward /remuneration/ belongs to the present subject is the honorary shape.

That it is not for service in every shape that reward in this shape will be sufficient or even so much as apposite, is sufficiently evident /manifest/. Where, in the course of action whereby meritorious service has been rendered loss has been suffered by money expended profit does not commence, reward does not commence till compensation has been made for the full amount of the loss: and in the account of money must be comprehended that which in the time in question would have been received by the individual in question in return for labour expended

Moreover if by the reward conferred it be intended to purchase at the hands of other individuals future contingent service, not only actual loss, but probable risk must be taken into the account.