[xxxvi. 122]

1822 July 2

Constitut Code

Supreme Operative

I. Monarch

Instruments

Lawyers

2. Next as to the Lawyers. External enemies are the enemies against whom the force and intimidation by which the Soldier operates are principally and most avowedly prepared: but incidentally as often as occasion calls force has for its destination the being employed against the subject citizens in the character of most natural, most constant and nearest enemies. As to the force /scale/ the force which it is his destination to apply is in each individual case /instance/ applied upon the largest scale. The subjects /enemies/ to which that force is applied which is at the command of the Lawyer are no others than these same internal enemies, and in its application to them it operates upon the smallest scale: if the scale is to a certain degree enlarged, that force is called on which has been lodged in the hands of the Soldier is called on

Force and intimidation are the only instruments to the use of which the operations of the Soldier are purposely directed. Of corruptive influence he has /sees/ no need: of delusive influence as little

Delusion is the instrument for the application of which the powers /faculties/ of the lawyer are principally applied with most constancy and most energy and most constancy

By the force of his imagination he creates a sort of God or Goddess upon Earth, a sort of Divinity which he calls Common Law. Of this Goddess the principal and unavoidable occupation is to find /in finding/ pretences for giving fulfilment to the Monarchs sinister will as evidenced by his sinister interest: to lodge in the hands of the Monarch the external instruments of felicity in the largest quantity, to exercise for that purpose the arts of depredation and oppression all this for the benefit of the Monarch: his subordinate occupation subordinate in profession, principal of course in dsign and [...?] is to exercise the same arts for his own benefit.