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1824. June 17
Constitutional CodeCh. X. Ministers favorable Defensive Force
§. 3. III. Army Minister
§. Stipendium Principle applied
V. Treatment during service
12. Prospect as to promotion

Art. or XII. Prospect as to promotion. I. Privates
The goo Of the effects flowing from this source the goodness will depend
on what are generally thought to be and thence what actually are or will be
the causes on each occasion are the causes by which the promotion
is actually determined. Legitimate causes – causes the opinion of the
influence of which is productive of useful effects, are two:
namely superior merit aptitude, and seniority: illegitimate causes
are – favour and disfavour. Superior aptitude, in so far as
the existence of it can be ascertained, is of course a more legitimate
cause than mere superiority: but for want of direct
evidence it can not in every instance it can not in more
than a comparatively few small number of instances be ascertained:
For ascertaining it there can be but one
apt and well-adapted well-suited mode and that is by judicial examination:
which a mode as practicable in this instance as in
any other: Where seniority is the cause, it is principally if
not exclusively in the character of a proof presumptive of superiority
of aptitude, in which case point of view it operates in the character of
circumstantial evidence and in this character the strength
of its probative force is manifest to all eyes. In so far as
personal favour is regarded as the cause of promotion, the one effect
is the stronger its per operative influence is thought to be in this as in all other tenor of service to direct
the attention and endeavour of the subordinate functionary for the duties
of his situation, and to direct them preferably or exclusively to the means of acq avoiding
the disfavour and acquiring the favour of the locating superordinate,
to the and in consequence and where the superordinate interest and conduct
coincides accords with the interest of the service it is well: but in so far
as they are opposed to that exclusively legitimate interest the endeavours of the
duties shapes subordinate neglect of the duties of the situation is the least
bad consequence that can ensue: the tendency of the case to procure
for the criminal mischievous superordinate an instrument
of peculiar mischief in the person
of every such subordinate.

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