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Constitut. Code

If In this extraordinary case of the mischief to which the community is
exposed is not so great as in the ordinary one, the absurdity
of subserviency to it is more flagrant, and the depravation pravity
moral and intellectual taken together manifested on the part
of a nation which submitts to it, at the same time but too
evidently incontestably demonstrated. Under a Monarchy In every Monarchical state, the
probability always great great in the proportion of several to one, that
at any given period the fate of all its members will be in the
hands of a madman!

Look at now to the Electors of a President of the Anglo American
United States. Of their placing a Madman in the situation
of Chief functionary who from this moment to the end of time by
what numbers shall the degree of probability be represented.

The curious circumstance is that down to the moment
when the condition of the sufferer is too manifest to be any longer
concealed from the public eye, those same features of superhuman
excellence, in all its shapes in general, and in that of consummate
wisdom in particular will still be his, by the unanimous
striving of all who look hope for any good thing or fear for any
evil thing at his hands: by the unanimous voice of those
hypocrites his enticed by the unanimous chorus of their
dupes. In time the priests will continue to behold the most religious,
the lawyers the most just, the diplomats the wisest, the
Courtiers the most gracious, all this together in chorus together with it
Journalists workers in one word the best of character present past
or future.

Every Monarch is a Slave-holder upon the largest scale
and in that relation, each correlation is corrupted by his the relation
he bears to the other. The Under a Monarchy the population is composed of the
maullers and the maulled; of the corrupters and the corrupted; of the deluders
and the deluded: of bullies and cowards, of hypocrites and dupes.

When once the human race is rid of the two congenial plagues
Monarchy and Slave-holding – not to mention that still more
pityless ruthless plague, of which the seat is in the cloud ripens the imagination,
with how contemptuous or sympathy will not the present generation be regarded
by all succeeding in it.


Identifier: | JB/036/114/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

26 or 3 - 29 or 6

Box

036

Main Headings

constitutional code

Folio number

114

Info in main headings field

constitut. code

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

a13 / b6 / d7 / e7

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

c wilmott 1819

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

andreas louriottis

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1819

Notes public

ID Number

11038

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