[clx. 389]

1823. Feb. 9

Constitut. Code

III. Reason-Giving

Ch.2. Constitutive

?.2 Remedy Publicity

Publ. Opin. Tribunal

Sections

Demarcation impossible and needless

?. Between the two Sections - i.e. the members of the one and those of the other, no line of demarcation line can be drawn but that which is drawn by difference in respect of interest.

As to distinction between these two Sections to draw for any instant of time any determinate boundary line - a line on the one side of which shall be the situation of the several individuals belonging to the one section, on the other side all the several individuals belonging to the other, is plainly impossible is plainly precluded by the nature of the case. is neither possible nor any thing like necessary. \ZA\ Speak to necessity afterwards. If of the superiority in question there were but one element, say /[...?]/ factitious dignity, yes: to the aristocratical belong all who /by whom/ possess any [...?] particle, however small, of this creature of the imagination: to the democratical all who have not any particle of it. So perhaps, if instead of the factitious dignity it were power: understand political power, to the exclusion of domestic. So far then as depends upon two of the efficient causes of /species of matter of which/ aristocratical superiority /is composed/, yes. But what remains is the third, consisting /composed of the matter/ of wealth. To this article attach two causes of impossibility: one consisting of /constituent being the article of/ quantity the other being that of time

First as to quantity. As where physical light is concerned it is impossible to say where brightness /dulness/ ends and gives place to dulness /brightness/, so is it to say where poverty or indigence ends and gives place to affluence. So as to affection[?]

2. So as to time. Suppose a /the/ quantity determined - the quantity and thereby the Section to which each man appertains. For to day good: but tomorrow, one man /some men in any number/, by encrease given to his quantity has from the indigent class mounted /been lifted/ up into the opulent: another /others/ from the affluent been sunk down into the indigent class.