[clx. 390]

1823 Feb. 9

Constitut. Code

III Reason-giving

Ch 2. Constitutive

?.2. Remedy Publicity

Publ. Opin. Tribunal

Sections

Demarcation impossible

Nor yet with a view to action, to influence on the conduct of the individuals in question, are the above, any of them, the immediate efficient /immediately operating/ causes. Of action The sole efficient cause and the sole efficient cause if interest be taken in its most enlarged sense is interest: i.e. according to each mans conception /perception/ of what at the moment in question is his most forcibly influencing interest: the interest constituted by social sympathy and antipathy as well as that which is of purely self-regarding complection included.

Thus to the purpose of action to the aristocratical section belong all such individuals who in respect /by hope/ of factitious dignity, power or wealth are dependent on the members of the aristocratical section: so, to the democratical of those who by factitious dignity, power, affluence by all or any of these articles are aggregates /appertain/ to the aristocratical Section, at any moment of time any one who /whose affections and interests are/ by sympathy with the sufferings of thise belonging to the democratic section or by antipathy towards /produced by dissension with/ this or that portion of the aristocratical section is thus transferred in reality /to the practical purpose in question/ to the side opposite to that on which he is seated in appearance.