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1822 Aug. 11.
Constitut. Code

24.
In opulence &c. scale,
degrees not marked
as in temperature
scale. Sold distinction
two stations – viz.
1. Opulence.
2. Non-opulence.

25.
In regard to useful
qualities in general,
aptitude as to office
in particular aphorisms
indicative of
the connection between
inferiority in
the scale of merit,
and superiority on the
do. of prosperity and influence.
1. The more valuable
the mass of services
a man has at command,
without need
of retribution by beneficence,
the less his
inducement to such
beneficence: negative
and positive.

26.
I. Aphorisms as to
moral aptitude in
the opulent.
2. The higher his place
in the scale of opulence
&c. the lower
in do. of sympathy of
conception.

27.
3. Therefore for both
reasons, in the do. of
sympathy of affection.


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28.
4. Proportioned to the
correctness, clearness &
completeness of a man's
conception of another's sufferings
and enjoyments,
is the strength of his
sympathy of affection,
where he has any.

29.
5. Relative sensibility
wanting, so may sympathy
of affection be,
although do. of conception
be present: but, no
sympathy of conception
no do. of affection.

30.
6. In opulent's breast absence
of sympathy of
conception joined to
sense of relative independence
in destroying
beneficence positive
and negative,
towards the unopulent.

31.
II. As to intellectual do.
1. The more wealth a
man has without
labour, the less need
he has to labour – in
body or mind.
2. The less need a man
has to labour, the less
inducement he has.
3. The less the inducement
the less the probability.
4. The less the labour, the
less the probability of intellectual
aptitude, so
far as depends on labour.


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32.
III. As to active talent,
the less the labour, the
less the probability.

33.
IV. As between understanding
and will. The
greater the exercise given
to the will, the less to
the understanding.

34.
According to all these
indications, the Monarch
as such stands lowest
in the scale of aptitude.

35.
Under him the Members
of every Aristocracy: aptitude
is inversely as attitude.

36.
Accordingly, in Aristocratical
bodies, not by reasoning
referring to greatest
happiness, but by
collision of wills – the
strongest having it – are
all results produced.


Identifier: | JB/038/079/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 38.

Date_1

1822-08-11

Marginal Summary Numbering

24-36

Box

038

Main Headings

constitutional code

Folio number

079

Info in main headings field

constitut. code

Image

001

Titles

Category

marginal summary sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e3

Penner

john flowerdew colls

Watermarks

[[watermarks::i&m [prince of wales feathers] 1818]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

arthur wellesley, duke of wellington

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1818

Notes public

ID Number

11716

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