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1825. June
Rationale of Reward

§.2. Pensions of Retreat

In a Democracy alone can that antiseptic light shine forth. In a Monarchy, it is kept by force under the bushel. In a Monarchy, the people, with their property re and feel themselves to be, the property of the Monarchy. In a Monarch, every man beholds a depredator and oppressor: to cheat him, is but to take back what he stole: in a limited Monarchy, every man beholds a corruptor, or would be corruptor, into the bargain. In neither, is any man ashamed of revenging himself upon a property which, after being forcibly taken from the producers
and those to whom they have passed it over, is the whole of it in name, and in so large a proportion in effect, the King's In a representative democracy, in which nothing is taken from any individual without previous actual consent, immediate or unimmediate, no man can steal from Government without stealing from his neighbour. This being seen by every body, nobody could steal from government without chasing himself not only to punishment but to shame: to shame a species of suffering, which a man is made to undergo on much less evidence. Than is required for the inflictions of punishment under the name of punishment

Thus says theory But to this theory, the Prussian
anecdote will oppose what will be called experience The Minister makes his prophecy: the King believes it. The whole mass of official salary receives an addition of one half: the whole of the revenue of one third. So says the story: a prettier one the heart of a placeman could not with three things only and wanting to it: consistency, probability and evidence

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Date_1	1825-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	143	Main Headings	rationale of reward
Folio number	123	Info in main headings field	rationale of reward
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48756
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