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by the individuals in question in the mass of the instruments of
felicity, the less is the sum of the felicity produced by the sum
of those same shares.

25. The national or constitutional evil is that which
has place in so far as the subject matter of the distribution is
power. It has place in this way. The greater the quantity of
power possessed, the greater the facility and the incitement
to the abuse of it. In a direct way this position applies only
to power. But between power and wealth, such is the connection
that each is an instrument for the acquisition of the other: in
this way therefore, the position applies to wealth likewise.

26. Of inequality as applied to both subjects, and of the
evil, with which in both the above shapes, it is pregnant, the
case of Monarchy may serve for exemplification: — for exemplification,
and thereby for proof.

27. Of the maximum of inequality every Monarchy affords
an example. Of the matter of wealth, to the Monarch is allotted
a mass as great as suffices for the subsistence of from 10,000
to 100,000 of the individuals from whom amongst others, after
being produced by their labour it is extorted. Yet does it still
remain matter of doubt whether the quantity of felicity thus
produced in the breast of that one, be greater than that which
has place in the breast of one of those same labourers taken
on an average, has place or at least would have had but for
the extortion thus committed.

28. What is certain is — that the quantity of felicity habitually
experienced by a gloomy, or ill-tempered, or gouty or
otherwise habitually diseased Monarch, is not so great as that
habitually experienced by an habitually cheerful and good tempered
and healthy labourer.

29 June

Identifier: | JB/039/008/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 39.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	008	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e8
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	12015
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