JB/036/062/001

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1821 July 9

1. Useless places official situations.

The whole of the establishment kept up for the
service of the person of the Chief functionary in the state in a Monarchy:
kept up, as the phrase is, for the support of his dignity: for
the maintenance of the lustre, the splendour of his throne.

Proof of the uselessness of this office: the peaceful
and flourishing condition of the Anglo-American United States
in which, in the federal state, the pay of the Chief functionary
is no more than £6,000 a year; and it is rather by imitation
and prepossession, it should seem, than be any clear proof or view
of a real and adequate demand to that amount, that, in that instance,
the allowance of so large a sum was determined.

This Office is not merely useless: it is a great deal
worse than useless. It is perilously mischievous, and in
a transcendent degree. The effect Of his mass of the matter of wealth
thus employed the effects are corruption and delusion,
corruption applied applying itself to the public functionaries of al other
classes: delusion applying itself to them and to the subject
many.

The delusion has for its effect and in all
object the causing the several persons individual about on whom the lusture
is shed to be regarded contrary to the truth of the case as superior being in moral as well
as intellectual endowments acquirements superior to the rest of the community.
Thus this is opposite to the truth is matter of
demonstration. For both in his acquisition of all those endowments self-denial
in the shape of labour rental and other shapes is altogether indispensable:
for self-denial is self-annoyance and that which a man can obtain without self-denial self-annoyance
he will not bestow expend self-annoyance on the obtainment
of. By power, by money, by factitious dignity a man is
rendered an object of respect and even of affection to others other men:
especially to those whose place is below the level of his in
those several scales: they are placed in a state of dependence with
relation to him: he is exempt from dependence in relation to them.
For In respect of ay services it may happen to him to be desirous of receiving at their
hands he is by in so much
so greater degree independent
of his good behaviour in
relation to them: of his
good behaviour: i.e. of
the degree in which he is
in the habit of rendering to them
services to in both shapes,
positive and negative: by negative service understand abstinence from inflicting annoyance in all its several shapes.

Identifier: | JB/036/062/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-07-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	codification proposal (codification offer); constitutional code
Folio number	062	Info in main headings field	codification offer or first lines constitutional?
Image	001	Titles	official situations / useless places
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	10986
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