★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
1830 Dec 3 29 12
J.B. to Belgians
Letter 4
II Inaptitude
23
23. II Next as to inaptitude. Now then, if, if
for conducting the business of government, if the object
—
and den were - to find, or to put a ha
being in a condition state of existence such as, in relation to that
same business should render him as unapt as
possibility what is the that would be true
? Exactly that which under a Monarchy
as such has place
possibility what would be the
—
and design were - to find a state of existence.
as without plunging him into insanity should render a man as unapt as possible,
what would it be? It would be exactly that, in
which every Monarch as such is: . It would
a state in which he is placed as compleatly as possible
out of the actin, if all motivingmotives, capable of giving birth by which he
could be brought to bestow the sectionsto the mental
labour,to the exertions without which all aptitude for that
same business as utterly impossible: a state, in
which, without a particle of labour of his own bestowing,
he is will be in the constant possession and
enjoyment, of all their fruits which the labour of
millions of human beings, with that of the inferior
beings at their disposal belonging to them , is capable
of producing.
As Here then, as to that same inaptitude, you
have indeed in the person of a Monarch as such, you
have indeed a security, but of what sort? a security
- not against but for that same inaptitude: a security
which i is inseparably from attached to the very nature of the institution.
Identifier: | JB/023/124/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 23.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
1830-12-03 |
23 |
||
023 |
lord brougham displayed |
||
124 |
jb to belgians |
||
001 |
|||
text sheet |
1 |
||
recto |
c1 / e1 / f19 / f12 |
||
jeremy bentham |
street & co 1830 |
||
antonio alcala galiano |
|||
1830 |
|||
7995 |
|||