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1822 July 18

Constitut Code Rationale

Factitious honor excluded

4. Evils produced by it

9. Evil 9. Evil by aggravation of inequality. Whether it be in the scale of power or in the scale of opulence, it has been elsewhere, that by every degree of distance from the point of equality the loss to the inferior in the account of happiness is greater than the profit to the superior. In the scale of power inequality to a certain degree, is, as has been observed above, matter of indispensable necessity: so likewise in the scale of opulence: in both these instances the evil is therefore compensated and over compensated by the good. In this case it stands altogether uncompensated.

10. Evil 10: Evil by addition to the antisocial force of the aristocratical section of the Public-Opinion Tribunal. It has been seen ? how the interest and influence of the aristocratical section of the Public Opinion Tribunal is at variance with that of the democratical: the small minority with that of the vast majority.

?Supra` Ch. Public-Opinion Tribunal its two Sections.