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1823. April 28.
Constitut. Code. I. Matter Past
Ch. Ruling principles
§. 3. Obstacles to attainment
Rulers' sinister interest
31.
Adverse to universal interest,
thence to his share
in it, is every ruling
functionary's natural &
self-regarding particular
do.: thence, so far, sinister.
The tendency is To minimize appropriate
moral aptitude, in all it's
constant branches: viz. §. 1. Moral
aptitude: namely to give the reins to antinational
and anti-social
appetite in all shapes:
to maximize, at expence
of universal interest, the
mass of external instruments of
felicity, objects of general
desire, sweets of rule,
incentives to misrule: at
the disposal of rulers: viz.
1. Public money, for His own
use.
2. Power for purchase of
obsequiousness to their
will, services for their
own benefit.
3. Factitious honour and
dignity, for respect to self,
and obsequiousness.
4. Vengeance, at the expence
of all resisters of
his will.
5. Ease, at expence of official
duty.
These maximized: while
greatest happiness &c
as above requires that they be power and
money at their disposal be
minimized: and that of
such factitious honor, vengeance
and case there be
none.
32.
Sources of encrease to all
these incentives to misrule.
1. War, successful or unsuccessful.
2. Distant dependencies.
War, in proportion to
expensiveness, extent,
and duration.
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Ch. Ruling principles
§. 3. Obstacles to attainment
Rulers' sinister interest
32. contind.
Dependencies, in proportion
to expensiveness,
extent and distance.
War successful begets
distant dependencies.
Distant dependencies
give probability to wars
in proportion to their
profitableness which, to
ruling functionaries, is
always positive, to community
negative.
Thus are ruling functionaries
urged to maximize
wars, how opposite
soever to necessary;
distant dependencies, how
opposite soever to profitable.
33.
To the instruments necessary to
every government sinister interest add others.
Instruments necessary
to every Government, are:
1. force; 2. intimidation
to Government whose
end is greatest happiness
&c, as to do. whose
do. is greatest happiness
of one or few: for without
coercion, no subjection of
lesser number's interest
and will to greater do.;
and without physical
force and intimidation,
no coercion.
34.
Do. do. To every Governmt.
having for end greatest
happiness of one or few,
instruments added by the sinister
are
3. Corruption; 4. Delusion:
corruption to purchase
accomplices for misrule;
delusion, for keeping
up in greatest number's
minds, persuasion that
less bad rule neither exists
nor can exist, anywhere.
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Ch. Ruling principles
§. 3. Obstacles to attainment
Rulers' sinister interest
35.
If, in conjunction with
permanently ruling
one, or few, or both, delegates
from any portion
of the subject-many,
possess a share in Government
power, the
larger the share, the greater
the need of matter of
corruption & delusion:
corruption, for engaging
people's trustees to betray
trust, and become
accomplices of misrule:
delusion, to prevent people
from seeing the
truth, or make them
suppose the mischiefs
adequately compensated
for, by the mass of excellence
kept up.
Add. They see not that
of such superiority in
the scale of prosperity,
not ultra appropriate
aptitude, but ultra-inaptitude
is the result,
and that a constant
and necessary one.
36.
Hand in hand go corruption
and delusion.
Same, the money, power,
factitious honor and
dignity, vengeance, case.
Same palaces, thrones,
crowns, coronets, mitres,
stars, ribbons,
titles, privileges, by which
the few are gratified,
the many are dazzled,
awestruck, deluded, &
lulled into acquiescence
under the depredation
and oppression.
By the same court
the burthen of the people
is corrupted, le people
deluded.⊞
To produce the corruptive
effect are others necessary
the exercise of the good this
with the capacity on it as
best to give in the other
to receive it in a .
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Of From the appetite for robbery and
murder or to
The mischief as in the
of the suffering
multiplied,
multiplied by the extent: the misrule
tripled a is the
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