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1820 May 25
§ Rulers gainers
15.
To the aspirant, means
the least expensive is
flattery: of flattery
a most efficient shape
that which ascribes
appropriate aptitude
to the looked – to patron.
16.
In the earliest
extent the services rendered
are flatter, pleasures
of the table the
pay: how much more
commanding a provision
for life, to one
starving or on the point
of it.
17.
4. Profit by power thro'
the medium of incidental
vengeance.
Pleasure of vengeance
– gratification
of desire producing
suffering in another;
for supposed evil done
by him to the avenger.
18.
Means, either avenger's
single and immediate
power, or
do. of his confederacy.
19.
Created by official situation,
as friends so
adversaries: the more,
the more the occasional
demands for vengeance.
20.
Of profit by vengeance,
the most useful
and cherished modification
there that
where the provocation
is, the publishing a
misdeed of an the individual,
or his confederacy.
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§ Rulers gainers
21.
So far as, without preponderant
inconvenience to
the avenger, power, in this
shape, can, at his pleasure,
be exercised, the Government
is a despotism
the sooner it can be changed
into one made, with which
no such vengeance can
be taken, the better.
Add a despotism not less mischievous
when received by many
than when by one.
22.
Vengeance, suppose
provocation to avenger:
but the appetite may have,
and has, place without it,
without supposition of
injury done to avenger.
Here, if vengeance, it
is vengeance produced
by mere antipathy.
23.
Grounds of antipathy –
1. Taste (difference in).
2. Opinion at large.
3. Opinion as to Government
4. Opinion as to religion
24.
Of all antipathies, that
from religion is most
mischievous and formidable. It is
Placability, in other cases
a merit, is here regarded
as a crime.
25.
5. Profit by power, thro'
the medium of ease,
in official situations.
Value of office is as
profit directly; as irksomeness
and quantity
considered, inversely.
i.e. at as ease directly,
maximum of ease a
sinecure.
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§. Rulers gainers
26.
It is incumbent's interest
that ease designate be
by maximum of ease as great as possible.
a sinecure.
27.
So, it is patron's interest
that functionaries ease,
be so.
28.
2. To nominating patron: viz. 1. by value to
incumbent as above:
2. by extension to the
number of individuals
out of whom he can
choose his nominee:
thence –
1. So far as money is his
object, proportionable
chance of better price:
so far as gratification or
sympathy, chance of gratifying
the object of this
strongest sympathy.
29.
6. Profit by power, thro'
the medium of impunity,
for misdeeds of all
sorts.
30.
The most valuable of
all profits, this:
1. Of exemption from suffering,
the value extends
further than do. of the utmost
enjoyment.
31.
2. By the means it affords
of obtaining, and renewing,
all those other
profits, its value includes
that of all the others.
32.
Profit, in this shape, has,
for its possessors, not only
individual functionaries
– incumbents of particular
offices – but the
whole body of the ruling
few.
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