13 Jan y 1817

Necessity Cat

1 Theory

§.4. Probity how securable

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Q. 11. In speaking of the case of a private partnership you had occasion to bring to view in the character of tutelary interests certain interests by the names of /the interests created by/ legal, moral and religious interests /sanctions/. In the case of a private partnership For the most part taken all together these tutelary interests are in general sufficient to secure the probity of each partner from /against/ breach of duty as towards the other partners: are they not so? and if in that case they are why should not these be so in this?

A. In the case of a private partnership, generally speaking I suppose they may be: But in respect of the application and efficiency of these tutelary interests the case of this all comprehensive public partnership is a very different one. As to the /a/ legal tutelary interest interest which it is the nature of the political or legal sanction to create it has no /not in this case any/ application whatsoever /here/: for, the possessors of the supreme power, whoever they are, are themselves masters of this force[?]. As to the moral tutelary interest, though it is not so immediately and promptly /strictly/ subject to them, yet in the long run and even without any /particular/ pains taken on purpose, they have in a good measure the direction of it. And lastly as to the religious tutelary interest, in the first place its influence on political conduct is on men in the exalted station /elevated situation/ in question is generally speaking less efficient than on men in inferior situations: and /on political conduct is on men in general less efficient than on the conduct of Moralists[?], and/ at any rate it is not possible in relation to its force, whether absolute and /or/ comparative, it is not possible to form any situation approaching in correctness to what may be found in relation to the force of an ordinary worldly interest more particularly of pecuniary interest, of interest in a pecuniary shape.