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The reasons which might occupy a volume are those by which the ”causes of relative inaptitude• which are inseparably attached to the situation of legislator or to take it in its whole extent of member of the body of the ruling and influential few are laid open to view: the causes, to which would require to be added the effects with which these causes are pregnant, effects the chain of which continues on /goes on in continually encreasing strength/ till it terminates in the consummation of misrule on the part of the ruling few, and of misery on the part of the subject many

For the purpose of attaching something of a determinate import to the appellation of /phrase/ causes of relative inaptitude suffice it to observe that they may be summed up in the following expression

The causes of relative inaptitude here in question consist in the absence of one or more of the several elements of appropriate aptitude with relation to the situation and function in question, or in the presence of their respective opposites

Opposite and correspondent to the several elements of appropriate aptitude are the several parts of relative inaptitude.

The elements of appropriate aptitude with relation to the situation and function in question may be thus designated 1. appropriate moral aptitude; 2. appropriate intellectual aptitude; 3. appropriate active talent.

Appropriate intellectual aptitude may again be considered as divided into /having/ two branches:© appropriate knowledge and 2. appropriate judgment.

The causes of these several modes /modifications/ of relative inaptitude may be thus summed up or designated: 1. sinister interest. 2. interest©begotten prejudice. 3. original weakness meaning /understand/ intellectual weakness. 4. authority begotten prejudice