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1822 July 22

Supreme Operative

Concluding Aphorisms

Aphorisms, at the commencement or at the conclusion

1. In the scale of appropriate moral aptitude (a) - Note aptitude with relation to the functions of a functionary of government in a government having for its ground the greatest happiness principle a mans altitude is, naturally speaking, inversely as his altitude in the scale of prosperity, meaning that which is composed of the contiguous and conjunct scales of power, opulence and factitious honor

2 So, in the scale of appropriate intellectual aptitude: necessary external means of information being supposed equal

3 So in the scale of appropriate active aptitude.

4. On all three accounts taken together, the place of the absolute Monarch will in the aggregate of the three scales of appropriate aptitude, be naturally be at the lowest degree /point/

5. The place of the limited Monarch will naturally be at a point above that of the absolute Monarch but below that of a member of a purely Aristocratical government

6. Among Limited Monarchs the place of each one in the aggregate scale of appropriate aptitude will be inversely as his altitude in the scale of prosperity, and in particular as his altitude in the scale of power: directly as the quantity substracted from his power by the aggregate of the limitations annext /applying/ to it

7. The place of a Member of a purely Aristocratical government will naturally be above that of a Limited Monarch but below that of an average individual belonging to the class of supremely ruling /those/ functionaries among whom supreme rule is shared.