[xxxvi. 170]

1822 July 22

Constitut. Code Rationale

Supreme Operative

Concluding Aphorisms

8. In the particular scale of appropriate moral aptitude The place of a Member of a

purely Aristocratical government will naturally be even below that of the most

mischievous of those commonly designated by the name /common appellative/ of

malefactors: and the importance of this branch of appropriate aptitude being in

comparison of the two others so much /superior/ greater thereby also in the aggregate

scale of appropriate aptitude.

9. The place of the Member of a supremely operative Representative body in a

Representative body in the aggregate scale of appropriate aptitude, will naturally be

above that of an average individual taken from the class of non-functionaries