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Next as to inaptitude. Now then, if, for conducting the business
of government, the object and design were to find a
state of existence such 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 – a state in which he is as
completely as possible out of the action of all motives
capable of giving birth to the exertions without which
all aptitude for that same business is utterly impossible –
a state in which without a particle of labour of his
own bestowing, he is in the constant possession and
enjoyment of all the fruits which the labour of millions
of human beings, with that of the inferior beings
belonging to them, is capable of producing.

Here then as to inaptitude, in the power 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 is inseparably
attached to the very nature of the institution.

In modern times, if, on a throne, you ever see a man by
whom any tolerable degree of appropriate aptitude has been
exhibited it is one who in the former part of his days had
been placed in circumstances by which he has been prevented
from leading the ordinary life of a Monarch. Look,
for example, to Prussia! Look at Frederic the Great! Was it
in the luxury of a Court that he acquired the attainments
by which he earned that appellation? No: it was in that
School of adversity which he passed through in his way to
the camp and to the throne: it was in confinement that
when sinking into despondency he found in hard labour
in the field of literature his sole resource. Look to
Paris – To whom is it that for an eventual defender you
look with such well-placed confidence. Is he the inhabitant
of the Palais Royale? No: it is to the hard-working
bread-earning exile, the teacher of Mathematics.

By men who sleep or do worse on thrones – by these are
chose the men who lounge in Cabinets – men, fruges

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	023	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	136	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5 f5 / e6 f6
Penner		Watermarks	street & co 1830
Marginals		Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1830
Notes public		ID Number	8007
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