[clxii. 166]

1820 May 20

Emancipation Spanish

' 7. Rulers gainers

To factitious may therefore be added spurious and [ ...]

The association why states unhappy degree of such dignity It is a [...?] in the case of corrupters against the people.

10. Profit in the shape of factitious dignity: i.e. of esteem, respect, honour, and reputation extracted by means of factitious dignity.

Of Dignity in Latin dignitas, the literal translation in Englsih is worth. But factitious dignity in all its shapes may have place without worth in any shape

What is called Natural dignity of character is possessed by /ascribed to/ man in virtue of /proportion to/ the opinion entertained by others of his /some/ superiority on his part over the /others/ general /average/ run of men in respect of those qualities by the contemplation of which the sentiments in question /as existing //having place// in the possession/ the sentiment of or affection designated /denoted/ by the word,

esteem and respect, and others of kindred signification are called forth and pointed towards him /their object/ in such sort that he is the object of them: and the degree of it is in proportion to the degree of the qualities so ascribed.

Dignity is worth, real or supposed, in these shapes in which it is productive of respect towards the person in question[?] at the [...?] hands of others independly of any mark set upon him by the Monarch or other rulers of the country for the purpose of causing such sentiments to be entertained towards /in relation/ him.

In so far as the principle of utility is on this occasion taken for the guide, the natural dignity of a man's character would be in proportion to the degree in which he abstains from doing evil /deprave[?] amnyone/ preponderant evil to others and the degree in which he contributes to general felicity but in some way /such a degree/ which is either particular to himself or in which he has but few to share with him

But though this principle is received and acted upon /taken for a guide/ to a considerable extent, and to a certain extent can not fail to be so, yet to this general rule, phantasia /fancy/ and prejudice have every where had the effect of producing but too many and too important exceptions.

But by means of an association of ideas, naturally and even unavoidably but very unhappily stands established, these same sentiments, so beneficial to him who is the object of them, are excited by /are less capable of being and in use apt to be/ and pointed to a set /description/ of persons by whom no one of those qualities is in any degree possessed.

The sort of instrument by which this association is established, is stiled a title of honour.

In various countries this instrument may[?] be seen establishing itself in various shapes

 Exemplify this in England and Spain