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1822. July 18 Constitut. Code

1.

Evils of factitious honor
arbitrarily conferred
as usual.
In a general character
of specific service to
community, it affords
either no indication or
no proof.

2.

1. Evils. Burthen to the
unhonored at large
To those the by
any single creature of
factitious honor is in
sensible: not so the aggregate.

3.

2. Evil 2. Burthen to
the antecedently honored.
By each new sharer,
the value of the
existing shares is diminished.
Duchess of Northumberland,
her years
of spitting on a Peer.

4.

3. Evil 3. Burthen to meritorious
unhonored.
Hence discouragement
to meritorious service:
encouragement to the
sinister do. if any by
which the honor was
procured.

5.

By encrease of honor
by natural honor by
publication, no sense
of injury is produced
uneasiness to the un
honored or less honored
is an unmeasurable
evil, and outweighted
by the extra service
naturally produced by
the competition.

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6.

4. Evil 4. Evil by contribution
to corruption
fund.
The other elements of the
corruption fund, power
and money, can not be
kept out of Ruler's hands:
without them, government
could not exist: to minimize
them is all that can
be done.

7.

5. Evil 5. Evil of demoralization
by sinister
independence: lessening
dependence on good
behaviour, by lessening
sensibility to the force
of the popular or moral
sanction.

8.

See above how by an
external instrument
of felicity, as such, this
effect is produced.
In possession if operates
as a bond of union
with co-possessors, by the
use of the sinister interest
in which they share
in expectation as an instrument
of corruption
of inducement, of temptation
to betray trust.

9.

6. Evil 6. By pretence for
depredation.
For support of factitious
dignity, money, if deficient
must be supplied:
i.e. at people's expence
obtained by swindling,
honor carries depredation
in the belly of it

Nobles and their relatives added to the three classes.
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10.

Operative rationale.
1. Factitious honor left
bare of opulence the natural
source of respect,
contempt will naturally
substitute itself: decomposition
effected, the false colour
varnishes. "Wearing
"this, the man being a poor
"creature, what is he good
"for."

Discovered in the peer
man its worthlessness
may thus be recognized
in the act.

11.

7. Evil 7. Evil by sanction
given to the imposture — by
encouragement and establishment
given to delusion
on the part of the
party deluding — thence
moral debasement — habit
of employing deception.

12.

8. Evil 8. By propagation of
delusion on the part of the
deluded: viz. the community
at large thence in intellectual
debasement: habit
of being deceived.

13.

9. Evil 9. Evil by aggravation
of inequality.
Inequality in power is necessary
to existence of Government:
in opulence
unavoidable, and for security
for subsistence, necessary
do. by factitious
honor is needless and
useless.

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6*

Ways in which factitious
honor produces evil in the
shape -
1. General: - by producing
obsequiousness to Monarch
sinister will and do. interest,
thence aid to sinister sacrifice:
it being clear that against
his will it can not
be obtained; and that the
chance of obtaining it by
him who is tempted by it
is as the degree of obsequiousness
and the felicity of the
course suggested: thence so
many persons thus tempted,
so many obsequious to the
sinister will, interest, and
sacrifice.

6**

2. Particular evil on this
or that occasion promoting
misconduct by overpowering
the punitory and restraining
force with which
public opinion tribunal
acts against it. As a reward
for the sinister and dishonorable
aid suppose the
honor conferred: the mark
of honor is seen by every body:
the dishonorable conduct
known to comparatively few:
by the factitious honor the
natural honor is covered
over and drowned: incalculable
the degree in which man
may thus be rendered shame-proof
and the number that may thus be led
into the like similar courts.

14.

10. Evil 10. Evil by addition
to aristocratical public
opinion tribinal's anti
social force.
Seen above the hostility
of this minority to the
interest of the majority.

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Date_1	1822-07-18	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-13, 6*, 6**, 14
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