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1822 Aug. 28
Constitut. Code
Remain the external instruments of felicity, existing
at the disposal of rulers as such.
Of these in the case of Good Rule the begun
is that: in the case of Bad Rule the added evils
will I be
External Instruments of felicity at the disposal of rulers
in the case of Good Rule, two. Matter of
Between these the connection is most clear and intimate – so
intimate indeed that the disentanglement of them from each are in the
a matter of extreme no small difficulty. They are
each of them respectively, an instrument of production a productive instrument
with relation to the other. By wealth, with or even without
parting with it power may be produced obtained: power even in the import
of the word power that of wealth is even included: since
power remunerative power employing for its instrument
the matter of remuneration includes in it the power of
making application of the matter of wealth and thereby
the possession of it. Occasions however are not waiting wanting
on which on the one hand while wealth is conferred, no power over any
particular person or say particular thing, except that individual
portion of the wealth is conferred: nor becomes on the other hand
are not wanting in which wile power on is conferred
its the matter of wealth or evil at the same time in any determinate
shape conferred: it follows or does not follow according
to the use that happens to be made of the power.
Of these two instruments of felicity there is not one
that is not as of course are the object of general desire: in one shape or another
it may perhaps be added the objects of universal
desire: but for the purpose here in question to say the one word general
is quite sufficient.
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