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1822 July 5

Constitut Code

Factitious Honor

?4 Evils produced by it

3. Every honor that has been conferred on any man in whose instance it is not clear that extraordinary service to the public has in any shape is conferred in a more particular manner at the expence of all those by whom extraordinary service to the public has really been rendered: it is felt by them as an injury. It has always for its tendency, and to an unmeasureable extent for its effect, the preventing men in general from taking on themselves any extraordinary burthen for the purpose of rendering to the public in any shape extraordinary service.

Evil 3. Burthen to the meritorious unhonored.

By Honor by publication /Publication/ of service secures to every extraordinarily meritorious individual, for service past and thence for services to come, the exact portion of honor which in a comparative as well as absolute point of view is most apt with relation to the service. No injury does it to any men: to men in any number it may produce uneasiness: but in no instance can the uneasiness be productive of, or accompanied by, any such sensation as the sensation /conception/ of injustice - of injustice done to any one by him by whom the title to the honour has been adjudged