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1823. April 7
Constitut. Code.

Of the causes which have contributed to produce give birth to and keep on
foot this notion of hardship and and indignity, one is the notion
of a sort of moral excellence in being naturally and universally
attached to power when in a certain quantity, and combined
with that opulence absolute or comparative with which of course
in virtue of an invincible insurmountable and irresistible invincible electing attraction he is everywhere
found combined with it. Such is the force of political delusion, of
that delusion which is so inseparable an accompaniment of
political corruption, both causes of misrule objects having the same instrument
one common instrument or set of instruments. Having power
at the expence of the subject many the ruling few cloathe themselves
with opulence: not content with this, honour power and opulence
they cloath themselves again with an embroidered surtout of
their own manufacture – factitious honor and dignity. Thus
accoutred they stile themselves and one another. Excellent that
Excellent! and this excellence who shall dare dispute it?

All this while, to subject many out of whose submission and
obsequiousness the power is made, out of whose money the opulence
is made, out of whose respect and self humiliation the factitious
dignity is made, repeat in divers the same word Excellence –
In the Oh deplorable intellectual weakness Exactly of a pair with this it is that of the idol
maker of antient or modern times who having made fashioned by his
own hands the into the image of a God is a sacred a mass of wood
or stone falls down and beholds in it something superior not only
to wood and stone but to all mankind the whole human race himself the
creator of it not excepted, and as such falls down and worships
it.

Identifier: | JB/037/123/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-04-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 7 - or 10
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	123	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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