JB/012/341/001

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1825 July 14
J.B. to Bolivar

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Introductory Letter

The Constitutional Code to which this d fragment
belongs having for its end in view the happiness and
interest of the subject many, this together with every thing
else that belongs to the Efficient Establishment will in every place require
as a necessary condition to its adoption, a proportionable sacrifice
to be made by the ruling few of their separate and consequently
sinister interest.

If there be, or ever can be, a political state, in which this necessary
sacrifice presents a chance chance of being made, it is that State, or
rather those States, the d of which at present are, and, by all lovers of mankind
in this country (not
to speak of others) it
is most ardently hoped
will, for one small
of which, for the present, and it is hoped for small
length of time will be continue to be in your hands

In this country, in which the whole policy of government
is notoriously and even by its most eminent writers
even, as I have shewn avowedly, directed to the giving the greatest magnitude
possible to the mass of money and factitious other objects of desire
dignity which under the name of and pretence
of remuneration for official service is distributed
among the functionaries of government. Nothing,
Sir, that I have heard of late Spanish America
nothing that I have observed of human nature in general
permitts me to entertain any considerable hope of seeing
a better system of policy willingly pursued by those
whom you will find or put in authority under you.
Extraordinary things must if performed at all be performed
by extraordinary men. Noth For you nothing
is too extraordinary.[1]
[1] Nil vulgare ti
dignum. Cæsar.
If therefore it be accomplished
at all it is by under your direction that the official sacrifice
so indispensably necessary to good government will be accomplished.
By sacrifice I mean that sacrifice which consists in reducing to its minimum
instead of swelling to its maximum the mass of advantage ad
in all shapes, made exactly by the powerful, and in with their natural allies
allies the opulent
classes at the expence of all
besides others.

This.

Identifier: | JB/012/341/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1825-07-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	341	Info in main headings field	jb to bolivar
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / d7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	4402
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