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1822 July 15
Constitut. Code

§. Cause of Monarchical Misrule, sinister interest not
upright prejudice.

The amount of misrule and its effects being given,
a standing question, a question that on each occasion
presents itself is – as to how much of it is it owing to sinister moral
inaptitude, how much to intellectual: how much to sinister
interest, how much to prejudice, whether interest-begotten
or derived from other causes: not to speak of intellectual
weakness. The question however is, matter rather of curiosity
than of use: of use to the purpose of affording direction guidance
to practice. Take any this or that mischievous anti popular arrangement
at pleasure: if not its creation, its preservation is
at any rate is the work of the sinister interest. Independently
of the sinister interest, let be the institution, let the arrangement be let
the phantasm of the imagination be ever so absurd, go back
far enough you may always find honed absurdity honed
intellectual weakness sufficient for the engendering creation of it.
How can it be otherwise? since for among the people at large
notions fraught with absurdity are not without example
notions which being adverse to the interest of all those by whom
they are entertained can not have had for their cause sinister interest
at any rate can not have had correct conceptions of particular
interest. But so long as it is by the sinister interest
that the causes of evil are supported and maintained
whether it was in the moral part or in sinister interest or in the intellectual
part of the mental frame that the evil had originally its rise
matters nothing to any practical purpose. Many are the are such
in which that which at first sight will present itself as the result
of intellectual weakness, will on scrutiny be found seen to have been
the genuine fruit of sinister interest: and the more closely
the mechanism of misrule is scrutinized into, the more
extensively will this genealogy be seen to have had place.

Identifier: | JB/036/137/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-07-15	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 1 - or 4
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	137	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11061
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