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1821. April 9.

So much for moral aptitude. Now as to intellectual
aptitude and active talent.

1. The greater the quantity in value a man has of
those good things which are the fruits of the labour of others, the
less the need he has of labour on his own part: the less therefore
will his frame, whichever part of it, bodily or mental be in question,
be inured to labour. But, other circumstances equal, intellectual
aptitude will be in proportion to labour.

Accordingly, in every department in which the waste
and corruption of Government has furnished pay enough for
both, you will see two sorts of men in pairs: viz. 1. the man
who bears the title and cuts the figure doing nothing of the business:
2. the unopulent man who bears no title, cuts no figure,
and cuts does no all the business.

3. In , the greater

And so likewise in regard to active talent.

3. The greater the exercise given to the will, the less
the exercise given to the understanding.

The Monarch is all will: understanding is wanting
to him. Will occupied itself about the end, understanding
about the means. All the Monarch has to do is to look out for
ends: for objects suited to his fancy and his taste. To find out
means for the obtainment of those objects belongs to others: to the
two legged and featherless instruments of his pleasure.

Of the Right Honourable House – of the Honourable
House – the members are, each of them, a fraction of a
Monarch – a Monarch in miniature. Accordingly, in neither
situation, has reason, fruit of labour of the understanding,
and effective place. By collision of wills it is, not by collision
of understandings, that every result is produced. When
argument, or any thing which has the semblance of it is exhibited,
it is only for appearance sake: for any such delusion, as it is
thought, there may be a convenience in propagating without doors.

Identifier: | JB/036/015/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-04-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	29-34
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	015	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / e11
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	10939
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