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1824 Nov. 11
Constitutional CodeCh. IX Ministers collectively
§. 11 Remuneration

Falsehood may with little less danger of error be
ascribed to the following: to wit

1. Those which ascribe to the dignitary the habit or
the disposition with relation to general effective benevolence. and

Those which ascribe to him the habit or the disposition
with relation to meritorious service - service rendered to the
community at large – in any this or that particular shape.

Of the Monarch – of every person in that situation – the
ever predominant interest, (this truth there has been continual occasion to bring
to view is essentially and unchangeably hostile to the universal interest
of the vast majority of the people. To his feelings they are
objects of hatred and contempt his decrees are to leave them in the state of wealth and power in a
state of depression lower if possible than that in which he found them.

Of the Aristocracy – of every member of the the vast majority of the class
thus denominated the ever predominant interest is in the
same state of essential and unchangeable hostility towards in relation to this
same object.

So far then as benevolence – effective benevolence is th
among the qualities which it is the property of the instrument
in question to cause men to ascribe to the person thus distinguished
the mass of aggregate conception is an allusion illusion.
Not benevolence thus but malevolence is the quality disposition really
belonging to the class: not beneficence but maleficence the
habit of the generality of person belonging to this class.

In every situation idiosyncracy will be prudence –
exceptions to general rules. But for a general rule – and so far as depends upon situations,
the more dependant
a man is upon the goodwill
of others, the better more correct
will be his conduct towards
them be: the less dependant,
the less correct.
Hence it is that on the scale
of good moral conduct, whom
soever is at the less, the place of the Monarch
will always be at the
very lowest degree, at the
next above him those who in
dignity are next below him,
and so on to the end.

In regard to meritorious public service to the community
at large, one exception excepted and that of small extent
the incorrectness of the aggregate conception is much the
same. The exception is that constituted by military service.

This line of service and the other of which presently are the only
ones, in the instance of which, in a Monarch under a Monarchy the matter of reward
ever finds its way into the hands of any person by whom unfit service
has been rendered to the community at large.

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