1823 Feb. 10 Greece. Constitution Observations Introduction ?.4. Sinister

sacrifice © its modes

On the other hand such is the blindness and power of self©partiality that while

occupied in the establishment of arrangements the most decidedly adverse to the

universal interest and the most decidedly favorable to his own particular

interest nothing is more common than for a man to have succeeded and with very

little difficulty in persuading himself in the persuasion /impregnating himself

with the persuasion/ that the arrangement by which by the supposition a

sacrifice has been made of the universal interest to such his particular

interest has in fact been beneficial to the universal interest: for in this case

the effect of the self©partiality will be to keep the mind steadily turned

toward all arguments which tend to establish in it that convenient persuasion

and as steadily turned away from those of which the tendency is to shake it.

The principal shapes in which sacrifice is made of the universal interest to the

particular interest of ruling functionaries taken in the aggregate are

principally as follows

1. Attaching respectively to the most influential situation masses of power over

and above what the universal interest necessitates. Say viz in the first place

coercive power, in integrality, or in fractional parts Say creation of power in

excess Note that all power is established at the expence of all individuals

subject to it

2. Attaching also in excess to this same situation necessary of pecuniary

emolument in masses. Note that all pecuniary emolument bestowed on functionaries

is bestowed at theexpence of all who are made contributors to it.

3. Attaching to these same situations power of patronage excess of factitious

dignity. It will be shewn /seen/ presently that all factitious dignity is so

much having place in excess. Factitious dignity is bestowed at the expence of

all who are not invested with it. And every fresh mass of factitious dignity is

bestowed at the expence of all those who are already invested with it as well as

of all those who are not invested with it.

For the bestowal of factitious dignity where any pretence condenscension is

manifested, on the assigning of no apparent reason or pretence for it, the

pretence consists in its being given as reward for meritorious service