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1822 June 29

Constitut. Code

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Ch Factitious dignity excluded

Ch. Securities for I Moral Aptit.

Factitious Dignity excluded

1. Dignity what - idea indeterminate - efficient cause of respect.

2. 1. Natural - cause respect opinion entertained of conduct and frame of mind.

3. 2. Factitious - cause the act of another.

4. Its distinctive character, causing respect to be shown to men in any number, towards whom, were conduct and character known, the opposite sentiment might be entertained by all.

5. Exclusion of the power of conferring mischievous respect is among the neccesary securities for operative's moral aptitude: viz. lessening power without prejudice to the proper end of Government.

Ground of the proposed exclusion, the persuasion that the effect is purely evil.

6. Division 1. Source, condition of the │   │ an individual, or a line of do.

Line 1. Political or say official.

2. Genealogical.

7. Division 2. Source, Inducement to the act by which the dignity is conferred.

Collation is 1. grounded. 2. Ungrounded.

If grounded, ground the contemplation of service in some shape done or eventually likely to be done by the dignitary to individual, individual or community.

8. By Government, neither in this nor in any other shape can benefit be conferred on some, but at the expence of others. Take any two men: by neither can a quantity of respect in which the other has no share be shown, but less must be shown to the other. Effect as to this, the same as a tax as to money. To no one can money be given by Government but it must have been taken from another.

9. Sole seat of this sort of manufactory, Monarchy: to assign grounds is not there customary.

10. By article manufactured, pleasure produced in two souls - 1. Manufacturers: 2. receivers. Groundless or not, here is collation ungrounded.

11. In so far as grounded, i.e. ground - viz. justificative cause, assigned, the ground is, attaching reward to service: meritorious service. Service of truly meritorious or useful; i.e. conducive to happiness in net quantity.

12. Axiom 1. Reward shd. be proportioned to service: felicity produced by the reward to do. by the service.

13. Axiom 2. The greater the service, the geater the reward.

14. True if by reward given to a man nothing were taken from any one else, remuneration could not be exessive. By what philanthropist could man be blamed for conferring on members net happiness to any amount? But neither in regard to respect, nor in regard to money, can this be.

15. Axiom 3. Be service maximized, expence, minimized.

16. By the performance of an act useful to the public, natural dignity, in so far as known to have been performed, and thought to be useful, general respect is obtained: natural dignity widened: exactly proportioned is this reward to the estimated value of the service Benefit produced by Primus's service twice as great as do. by Secundus: unless, as per axiom 3, obtained at less expence.