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1824 Aug. 24
Constitutional CodeCh. Sovereignty in whom

Position 4. To A Monarch will always comparatively be deficient in
appropriate intellectually aptitude. Proof.

The appropriate Intellectual aptitude To contribute to the aggregate
of appropriate aptitude, the intellectual aptitude in question
must be in the same breast and act in conjunction with
the correspondent appropriate moral aptitude.

Intellect – knowledge and judgment in whatever
degree they have place, will be beneficial or pernicious, according
as to the purpose to which they are applied. In so far as If he purpose of the person in question
be is the advancement of the happiness of the greatest number
they will be beneficial: in so far as it is the advancement
of the happiness of any individual at the expence of the greatest
number, they will be pernicious. The purpose of every Monarch
being as above the advancement of his own happiness the maximization of it at
the expence of that of the greatest number – and rather than
fail of his object – the minimization of the happiness of the
greatest number, the aggregate of appropriate intellectual
aptitude will rather be encreased diminished receive diminution than encrease than encreased from any
in proportion to his attitude on the scale of appropriate
intellectual aptitude. Witness Frederick the Great of Prussia,
witness Napoleon Bonaparte, with their respective wars of ambition.

Accident produced in those instances the union of appropriate
intellectual aptitude with supreme power. In the case of
Frederick, hard treatment in early youth hard treatment
seclusion from the pleasures of royal power – in a state of
hardship under which intellectual culture remained as the sole
accessible resource: in the case of Napoleon, in early life a condition in life
in which all enjoyment depended on severe labour a course of
the most strenuous exertion – in the manifestation and time in
the acquirement of the maximum of appropriate action as well
as intellectual aptitude.

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Date_1	1824-08-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	409	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d13
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1823
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1823
Notes public		ID Number	11624
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