[xxxvi. 166]

1822 July 17

Constitut Code

Supreme Operative

I. Monarchy

Instruments incorporeal

4. Delusion. 5. Fiction

If their own law were a proper one all Borough-mongers ought to be hanged!

By those obtaining money by persuasion is punished by

death.

?. Fiction - an instrument of Misrule in limited Monarchy - its relation to Corruption

and Delusion

Incorporeal instruments of misrule

Shall Fiction be added to the list? With respect to the four others it is altogether

disparate: for it is not produced by the same efficient causes - by money power and

factitious honor Though not the sister of Delusion It is however in one /a certain/

sense the offspring of that evil offspring /genius/. Fiction men have actually been made

to regard as an instrument apt and necessary to good government in general and to good

judicature in particular.

So mischievous an error where shall the efficient cause of its prevalence be found?

Answer in Delusion /Delusive influence/. By The same causes that delusion has been

produced has this preeminently mischievous error been produced By delusion by the

several efficient causes of delusive influence above mentioned men have been led to

regard as their best /natural and good/ friends protectors guardians their most

implacable and irresistible enemies namely Kings and Judges and Advocates placed over

them by Kings.

To give /For giving/ effect to the system of depredation and oppression concerted

between the arch depredator and these his instruments, they have woven a tissue of

falshood a mass /dose/ of poison in the shape of falshood and with the name of fiction

which by the stupid ignorant patience of the people they have been suffered to inject

into every vein of the body politic and thus added this source of corruption to the

other.