1820 May 20

Emancipation Spanish

'. Rulers gainers

'.4. Rulers gainers

8. Profit through

9. Profit by power through the medium of public esteem, respect, reputation, fame and so forth.

1 of esteem and respect the existence[?] and value is /may be/ as[?] distinct from that of power. But

Whatsoever quantity of power as which in these several shapes a man is or has been in possession of, profit in th esubtle and refined shapes there designated, in[?] [..?] /which howsoever/ in its amount is not the less real or the less perceptible in its effects, attaches itself itself of course to profit in that more substantial shape. Take two men, who /whom/ considered /frame of mind/ /call/ in every[?] personal and private point of view are as near as possibly the same, let /place/ one of them have occupied a public office to which power in a certain quantity is attached, which /let/ the other has never been in possession of any such office a higher degree of public esteem, respect, reputation call it what you will, will be sure to be possessed by the official than by the un-official person. Let the official person quit the office, a portion of this esteem, respect and reputation will leave him, but a portion will nevertheless remain to him.

Note

(a) Vengeance, inaptitude and impunity perhaps excluded

(b) Napoleon, Joseph, Lewis, Jerome, as compared with Lucia Bonaparte: if to the first forementioned - the four Ex-Kings there be any one of them in relation to whom Lucia is in respect of profit in these shapes superior, it is in the personal character of the individuals that the cause of this superiority must be loked for.