1822. July 1 st

Constiut Code

Rationale Supreme Operative 2. Monarch 1. Moral inaptitude

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While to one another Monarchs are objects of sympathy, to all Monarchs all subjects are objects of antipathy: of a mixture of hatred and contempt. Among all Monarchs alliance defensive and offensive against all subjects.

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Implaceable this antipathy. By the injured, the injurer may be pardoned: much less easily so by the injurer the injured: the fear and anger of the injurer will represent the ill will of the injured greater than it is.

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True, Monarchs with each other: in a Monarch who is an enemy to them, the subject, it may be thought, should have a friend. But as between Monarch and Monarch it is rivalry, not enmity: as between pugilist and pugilist, many a Monarch has given up power freely to a Monarch: none to his non-subjects Monarch and Monarch are Backgammon players: neither are insensible to the others sufferings: both as insensible to subjects d o. as Backgammon men are. 13.

In private as well as public life, the bottom is Monarch's place in the seale of moral worth. Cause 1. Self regarding prudence. The greater a man's need of the free good will of others, the stronger his inducement to obtain it by manifestation of good will towards them: the less the weaker. Of all men, Monarch has least need of such good will. Good offices for which others are dependent on free good will, he commands partly by punitive force, partly by remuneration. 14.

So, the more extensively exposed to ill will and ill offices at te hands of others, the stronger his inducement to preserve himself from it and its affects: the less extensive the less strong. Against the effect of ill will on the part of others, King is particularly secure partly by his primitive power, partly by his remuneration by which, without will, he can obtain good office 15.

Thus is his place, not as per vulgar statement at the top, but at the bottom of the seale of moral worth. Causes of the vulgar error, corruption and delusion. See further. 16.

Thus consummate is Monarch's inaptitude in the branch opposed to Moral aptitude. By the contemplation of the utmost sufferings of his subjects through his misrule can any desire of seeing them less intense exclusion. Adequate cause of this apathy, want of appropriate conception. To sympathy of affection, sympathy of conception is indispensable.