[xxxvi. 133]

1822 June 29

Constitut. Code

Supreme Operative

I. Monarch

His interest sinister

2. Take in the next place the four immediately subordinate ends of the Non-penal or distributive branch of law: Subsistence, Abundance Security and Equality in so far as the less important are compatible with the more important, maximized.

1. Subsistence. This it is true it is his interest they should have: that is to say such of them as are in a condition to work and can be made to work: for, unless he lives, man can not work. /for man can not work any longer than he lives./

But it is the interest of the greatest number that whether able or not able to work they should live which is as much as to say that they should subsist that they should have subsistence /in which is included the having subsistence/.

2. Abundance. This also it is his interest they should have: and the more /greater the quantity/ they acquire /produce/ and thence have, the greater the quantity which it will be in his power, as it can not fail to be in his inclination, to get out of them /these/ for himself. But so long as by any act of his, any addition how small so ever, which could not otherwise be made to the stock of the matter of abundance to the stock of their portions neither passing into and through his hands, how great may be the quantity which by this same act is taken out of their hands or prevented from finding its way into them will to this same personal interest of his be matter of indifference.

3. Security. Security is for body, mind, reputation, pecuniary property power, condition in life: it is against against injury at the hands of external evil doers, internal evil-doers not being functionaries, and internal evil doers being functionaries. Security against external evil doers, i.e. against foreign enemies his personal interest prompts him to maximize, so long /far/ as no expectation of profit presents itself from the restriction or diminution or destruction of it. But that which he is continually upon the watch to get is - an augmentation of the mass of the external instruments of felicity in his hands at the expence of other communities: and in the way /by means/ of war, that is murder upon the largest scale, this he never can get but by the diminution and as to so much the destruction of the security of his subjects as for the several possessions above enumerated.