[clxiv. 181] PRIVATE

1820 June 23

Emancipation Spanish

? Interest Opposite

G. Matter of delusive influence, splendor etc of the Crown etc.

Splendor necessary? imposture necessary? To a good government no: to a bad government yes: nor /of the badness of a/ can there be a more convincing any more than /or/ a conciser proof of the government's being a bad one, than this - that splendor and imposture are necessary to the support of it

And of this delusion of the delusion thus endeavoured to be spread, what is the object? - the object, and in so far as the endeavours are successful, the result?

What? but to cause men, jointly and severally to continue in a state of indiscriminating submission and not only of passive submission but active subserviency in all things to a course of conduct which has for its object the giving effect in all things to the will of the Most excellent one in so far as conformable to the advice determined by the will of the correspondently excellent few given from time to time by these /the/ same impostors by such of them as at each moment happen to be in the way /a situation/ to give the advice. But, as above the will of the Most excellent one will, so long as he is a man, be at each moment determined by his own interest understand always by the conception at that moment entertained by him of that interest: and this to the exclusion of or what comes to the same thing in preference to, all other interests put together: all other interests every where, and thence of course the interests of all the other individuals of which the community in question is composed. But, as already shewn the interest of the supposed /pretended/ Most Excellent One is in a state of point blank and perpetual opposition to that /those/ of the subject many: it is his interest that which the conception entertained of /by/ him of his own interest he is perpetually engaged in the endeavour to get into his own possession, the external instruments of felicity in all their several shapes, as above, in the greatest quantity possible.

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