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1822 June 28

2. Next as to intellectual aptitude. The branch of inaptitude opposed
to appropriate intellectual aptitude is also in this case at his maximum.

In the article respect of moral aptitude the condition of the Monarch
as such being that which has been described, towards the consequence is –
that towards the greatest happiness of the greatest number, all that in
the situation in question could be done by intellectual
aptitude if raised to its maximum would be the preserving
the people from that same greatest number from such unhappiness
as should appear in the eyes of the Monarch
be contributory to his own felicity. But by the care taken of
his own felicity at the expence of theirs, this infelicity on their part
may be raised to a pitch height to which no limit can be assignable.
Thus Take for example the case of Frederic the Great King of Russia.
See the state of the people under his government as depicted by
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams Diplomatic Resident of Ceylon
at his Court in the appendix of The Earl of Oxford memoir
London 1822.

But, in comparison of other men who have had the advantages
of what is called a liberal education, intellectual aptitude
is in the situation of Monarch, by unchangeable course placed
with lowest pitch.

Of the two branches of intellectual aptitude appropriate knowledge
is that in respect of which the deficiency is less considerable and
less uniformly exemplified. In the situation of Monarch, as in every
other situation, man is necessarily for a length of time more or
less considerable, placed by the inferiority attached to immaturity
of age placed in a state of subjection. During his continuance
in that state a certain appro not only knowledge at large but knowledge
in sort sort and degree appropriate, is injected into the
inferior and unresisting mind. Knowledge? but of what sort?

Identifier: | JB/036/109/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-06-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	17-18
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	109	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a8 / b1 / d8 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11033
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