1822. July 18

Constitut. Code

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Evils of factitious honor arbitrarily conferred as usual. In a general character of specific service to community, it affords either no indication or no proof.

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1. Evils. Burthen to the unhonored at large To those the by any single creature of factitious honor is in sensible: not so the aggregate.

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2. Evil 2. Burthen to the antecedently honored. By each new sharer, the value of the existing shares is diminished. Duchess of Northumberland, her years of spitting on a Peer.

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3. Evil 3. Burthen to meritorious unhonored. Hence discouragement to meritorious service: encouragement to the sinister d o. if any by which the honor was procured.

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By encrease of honor by natural honor by publication, no sense of injury is produced uneasiness to the un honored or less honored is an unmeasurable evil, and outweighted by the extra service naturally produced by the competition.

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4. Evil 4. Evil by contribution to corruption fund. The other elements of the corruption fund, power and money, can not be kept out of Ruler's hands: without them, government could not exist: to minimize them is all that can be done.

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5. Evil 5. Evil of demoralization by sinister independence: lessening dependence on good behaviour, by lessening sensibility to the force of the popular or moral sanction.

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See above how by an external instrument of felicity, as such, this effect is produced. In possession if operates as a bond of union with co-possessors, by the use of the sinister interest in which they share in expectation as an instrument of corruption of inducement, of temptation to betray trust.

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6. Evil 6. By pretence for depredation. For support of factitious dignity, money, if deficient must be supplied: i.e. at people's expence obtained by swindling, honor carries depredation in the belly of it

Nobles and their relatives added to the three classes.

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Operative rationale. 1. Factitious honor left bare of opulence the natural source of respect, contempt will naturally substitute itself: decomposition effected, the false colour varnishes. "Wearing "this, the man being a poor "creature, what is he good "for."

Discovered in the peer man its worthlessness may thus be recognized in the act.

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7. Evil 7. Evil by sanction given to the imposture — by encouragement and establishment given to delusion on the part of the party deluding — thence moral debasement — habit of employing deception.

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8. Evil 8. By propagation of delusion on the part of the deluded: viz. the community at large thence in intellectual debasement: habit of being deceived.

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9. Evil 9. Evil by aggravation of inequality. Inequality in power is necessary to existence of Government: in opulence unavoidable, and for security for subsistence, necessary d o. by factitious honor is needless and useless.

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* Ways in which factitious honor produces evil in the shape - 1. General: - by producing obsequiousness to Monarch sinister will and d o. interest, thence aid to sinister sacrifice: it being clear that against his will it can not be obtained; and that the chance of obtaining it by him who is tempted by it is as the degree of obsequiousness and the felicity of the course suggested: thence so many persons thus tempted, so many obsequious to the sinister will, interest, and sacrifice.

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** 2. Particular evil on this or that occasion promoting misconduct by overpowering the punitory and restraining force with which public opinion tribunal acts against it. As a reward for the sinister and dishonorable aid suppose the honor conferred: the mark of honor is seen by every body: the dishonorable conduct known to comparatively few: by the factitious honor the natural honor is covered over and drowned: incalculable the degree in which man may thus be rendered shame-proof and the number that may thus be led into the like similar courts.

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10. Evil 10. Evil by addition to aristocratical public opinion tribinal's anti social force. Seen above the hostility of this minority to the interest of the majority.