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1821 July 26
No Monarch ever has been or ever will be to whom
his subjects have not be were not taken collectively have ever not been objects
of constant hatred and contempt: hatred for the injury he
is doing them by his existence, and for the resentment which
the indeterminate unlimited multicides he feels is sensible that they can not
but feel at the contemplation of that injury: contempt
for their submission to that course of all comprehensive
and never-failing injury. In their This dissocial affection
every word he hears from them when he is surrounded
was and contributes at all times to confirm in him. It is for him
they were made: and they have the insolence to think and
act as if they had been made for themselves: every word he hears
from those about him concurrs in giving strength in his mind at the expence of the to the
self-regarding and antisocial appetites. The entrance of in him but the mix of wisdom with justice.
The affection has more of contempt of hatred in in
according as in its form the Monarchy is on the one hand absolute or
on the other hand more or less limited, and according as they are acquiescent compleatly passive
or more or less refractory under the yoke.
No Monarch ever has been or ever will be, whhose
taken collectively his subjects were objects of the affection
as evident as
whose affections towards his subjects taken collectively had as can have had
much kindness to them as those towards his dogs and horses.
In From no dog of his nor from any horse of
his has he ever had anything to fear: and from his subjects
he has at all times had every thing to fear. From his
cattle he gets at all times as much as he wants: from his
subjects he gets at no time as much as he wants.
What? and by his very situation is a Monarch every
Monarch essentially bereft of all social sympathy? No not
altogether: howsoever by the matchless independence of his that siuation
the quantity of it can not but be more or less diminished.
But this kindly affection whatever there is of it, his subjects
what are they the better for it? They are all the worse. From Of this
sympathy comes bounty the fruit: beneficence and it is and no otherwise than at the expence of his subjects that can
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