[clxii. 167]

1820 May 20

Emancipation Spanish

'. 7 Rulers gainers

'. 4 Rulers gainers

10. Factitious dignity

+ note distinction between hereditary and non-hereditary begin with hereditary, an abuse upon an abuse. In some instances it is combined with money or power, or both: in others it has place in a separate state.

With truth - with strict and incontestable truth may this association be termed an unhappy one. It is a most mischievous one. By being a succedaneum, it is a substitute, and by being a substitute /this instrument if factitious and spurious/ an instrument of exclusion a bar operating to the exclusion of natural genius and real dignity. It is a /an efficient/ cause of whatsoever qualities in human conduct stand opposite to such natural real dignity: it operates as a reward, a premium, a bounty upon the possession and manifestation of those pernicious qualities, it operates as an inducement to a man to cherish and nourish in himself these pernicious qualities to the exclusion of the opposite useful ones

Those useful ones are not capable of being manifested and possessed without self sacrifice of personal interest, sacrifice of the interest of the moment at least, to an amount more or less considerable. But for that which a man /he/ is in possession of or can obtain without sacrifice, man does not make sacrifice Instruments of factitious dignity - titles of honour the man who possesses possesses in every instance without sacrifice. +

As it is an instrument of injury to all other men /men together/ in their collective capacity so is it to each man in proportion in his individual capacity. Of two boys see-sawing upon a board, the one can not rise but in proportion as another /the other/ is depressed. Of two men sitting together in an assembly room the one with the title can not be more respected but in proportion as the other without the title is less respected.