[clxiv. 185]

1820 June 23

Emancipation Spanish

?. Interests Opposite

Not that by this subserviency of the subject many to the will governed /guided/ /determined/ by the separate and sinister interest of the supremely ruling one, the authors /supporters and propagators/ of the imposture - his advisers in possession or in expectancy would be gainers, were it in his power to make /as compleatly to make/ to such his will and interest a sacrifice as compleat of their interests as of those of the subject many. But no such compleat sacrifice ever is it, or ever can it be in his power to make. Of the aggregate of these same instruments of felicity not an atom can he at any time get or retain in his possession but by the intervention of subservient hands /a multitude of subservient individuals/. To each of these individuals according to the situation he occupies and the means belonging to that situation, a share must be allowed: a share in the matter composed of the external instruments of felicity, operating in this way /on this occasion/ in the character of the matter of reward. By punishment were it in the nature of the matter of punishment to be sufficient to such a purpose, the end might indeed be compassed by the ruling one without expence to him. But though by fear of punishment alone service in some shapes may be produced and in any quantity, as witness Negro and all other slavery, yet by this harsh instrument it is not in all shapes that service can be produced. Moreover governing by punishment alone, the Monarch would behold no faces but frowning ones: governing more by reward than punishment he beholds none but smiling ones: and as by frowning faces in view, felicity is diminished, so by smiling ones it is encreased.