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1823. May 25
Constitut. Code

1. First comes moral aptitude. But in the present
instance there will be a convenience it will save anticipation and reputation in postponing the consideration
of it the matter under this head till again it has been considered
under the head of appropriate intellectual aptitude.

2. Now then as to intellectual aptitude. The assumption
on which it is grounded, the only ground on
which so far as regards this branch of appropriate aptitude
it can be defended is that at any given point of time
the in any given country political state, at any rate in the country political state
in question, there exists in the minds of the several
functionaries in question intellectual aptitude in greater degree
than can be reasonably expected to have place in any future succeeding
point of time: appropriate intellectual aptitude in any degree: this is
to say appropriate knowledge and judgment in greater
quantity. Now to say this of Now in so far as the proposition has knowledge for its subject,
it is too palpably absurd to find a defender anywhere,
and in so far as it has for its subject appropriate judgment the same imputation
attaches upon it, unless in the particular case in
question it be shown it can be shown that as the materials f in which
judgment has for its ground encrease, aptitude of
the probability of apt judgment instead of encreasing
along with them will decrease.

That the opposite is the case with every other branch
of art and science, is what is assumed on every occasion assumed by anybody,
denied by nobody: if in the instance of its branch
of art and science here in question there be an exception a just cause of exception
made it has in him by whom the existence of such exception
is asserted it has felt the task of proving its obligation to prove it.

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Date_1	1823-05-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-7
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	275	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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