1822 May 10

Economy etc Text?

[...?] = Glory

National power defensive good: offensive, bad.

May 12 1822. The matter of this sheet containing arrangements condemned may it

not be inserted after the matter which contains arrangements recommended?

5 The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires that no functionary be

located by lot /chance/: much less by birth: in no case otherwise than by

nomination or election.

Q. Why not by chance?

A. Reason Suppose a certain individual endowed with the maximum of appropriate

aptitude, chance renders the location of that individual improbable, in the

ratio of the number of individuals to whom chance allows a /admitts a/

possibility of being admitted /admission/, to one

Q. Why not by birth?

A. Take for example the case where the whole of the operative power in the

highest grade legislative and super-executive is in a single hand. Taking birth

for the efficient cause of location i.e. proximity in the line of generation

/proximity/ to the last individual located, the improbability of the maximum of

the aggregate of appropriate aptitude will be at the highest pitch, more

particularly in respect of moral aptitude: the probability will be on the side

of the maximum of inaptitude /that branch/ which corresponds to and is opposite

to appropriate moral aptitude.