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1822 June 29
Constitut. Code

Ch. Securities for I. Moral Aptit.
Factitious Dignity

1.
Dignity what – idea
indeterminate – efficient
cause of respect.

2.
1. Natural – cause –
respect opinion entertained
of conduct
and frame of mind.

3.
2. Factitious – cause –
the act of another.

4.
Its distinctive character,
causing respect to
be shown to men in
any number, towards
whom, were conduct &
character known, the
opposite sentiment might
be entertained by all.

5.
Exclusion of the power
of conferring mischievous
respect is among
the necessary securities
for operative's moral
aptitude: viz. lessening
power without prejudice
to the proper end
of Government.
Ground of the proposed
exclusion, the persuasion
that the effect
is purely evil.

6.
Division 1. Source,
condition of the
an individual, or a
line of do.
Line 1. Political or say
official.
2. Genealogical.

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Securities for I. Moral Aptit.
Factitious Dignity

7.
Division 2. Source,
Inducement to the act
by which the dignity is
conferred.
Collation is 1. grounded,
2. ungrounded.
if grounded, ground the
contemplation of it service
in some shape
done or eventually likely
to be done by the dignitary
to individual,
individual or community.

8.
By Government, neither
in this nor in any other
shape can benefit
be conferred on some,
but at expence of others.
Take any two men: by
neither can a quantity
of respect in which the
other has no share be
shown, but less must
be shown to the other.
Effect as to this, the same
as a tax as to money.
To no one can money be
given by government
but it must have been
taken from Mexico another.

9.
Sole seat of this sort
of manufactory, Monarchy:
to assign grounds
is not there customary.

10.
By article manufactured,
pleasure produced
in two souls – 1. Manufacturers:
2. Receivers.
Groundless or not, here
ungrounded.

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Securities for I. Moral Aptit.
Factitious Dignity

11.
In so far as grounded,
i.e. ground – viz. justificative
cause, assigned,
the ground is, attaching
reward to service: meritorious
service. Service if truly meritorious
or useful; i.e. conductive
to happiness
in net quantity.

12.
Axiom 1. Reward shd.
be proportioned to service:
felicity produced
by the reward to do. by
the service.

13.
Axiom 2. The greater
the service, the greater
the reward.

14.
True if by reward given
to a man nothing were
taken from any one else,
remuneration could not
be excessive. But what philanthropist
could man
be blamed for conferring
on members net happiness
to any amount?
But neither in regard to
respect, nor in regard to
money, can this be.

15.
Axiom 3. Be service
maximized, expence, minimized.

16.
By the performance
of an act useful to the
public, natural dignity,
in so far as known to
have been performed,
and thought to be useful,
general respect is obtained:
natural dignity widened:
exactly proportioned is this
reward to the estimated
value of the service.
Benefit produced by
Primus's service twice
as great as do. by Secundus:
useless, as per axiom
3, obtained at less
expence.

Identifier: | JB/038/059/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.
Date_1	1822-06-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-16
Box	038	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	059	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles	ch. securities for moral aptit. / factitious dignity excluded
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
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