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1821. April 9. First Lines

Moral aptitude is inversely as aptitude on the scale of political
prosperity, political influence — composed scale of power, opulence
and factitious dignity

Education being supposed not deficient, nor subsistence
wanting.

Aptitude, with relation to the exercise of political
power, is inversely as the height of a man's place in the
composite scale of political influence. This composite scale
is composed of three elementary scales, the scale of opulence
the scale of power, and the scale of factitious dignity.(a.)

In the scale of opulence, language has not yet afforded,
as in the scale of temperature, denominations designative
here and there of the different degrees. No precise
station, therefore, can here be designated by the terms opulent
and unopulent. All that can be expressed is their relative
stations: viz. that in the station marked by the term
opulent, the station quantity of the matter of opulence is
greater than in the station marked unopulent

With relation to useful qualities in general,
and in particular with relation to those of which appropriate
aptitude with relation to political functions in general
is composed, the following are the considerations by
which, on the part of the opulent; inferiority appropriate aptitude
considered in all its branches, inferiority stands indicated.

1. As to moral aptitude

1. The greater the quantity in value of the services which, at
the hands of those on whom his comforts depend, a man has
at command, without rendering any correspondent services
in return — services positive and negative together — positive
consisting in the exercise of positive beneficence, negative
consisting in the exercise of negative beneficence, that is to say
forbearance from injury and annoyance in all their shapes, the
less the need he feels for the exercise of such beneficence on his part.

Note (a.)

(a) The scale of factitious dignity — for shortness instead of saying
the scale of factitious causes of respect.
2. The



Identifier: | JB/036/014/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.

Date_1

1821-04-09

Marginal Summary Numbering

22-23

Box

036

Main Headings

constitutional code

Folio number

014

Info in main headings field

first lines

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c11 / c1 / e10

Penner

jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls

Watermarks

c wilmott 1819

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

andreas louriottis

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1819

Notes public

ID Number

10938

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