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<p>them shapes happen to be conferred as that are individual<lb/> | |||
at the <sic>expence</sic> of the greatest number, that which<lb/> | |||
he gains in actual felicity, bears no sort of proportion to<lb/> | |||
what they lose. So much for the <gap/> of <sic>expence</sic>, in the<lb/> | |||
case of that form of Government: now as to relative & appropriate<lb/> | |||
aptitude say appropriate moral aptitude, appropriate<lb/> | |||
intellectual aptitude (knowledge & judgement included)<lb/> | |||
& appropriate active aptitude. While the exercise of<lb/> | |||
all the other functions of Government is made dependent on<lb/> | |||
the will of that one individual, there exists not, so much as<lb/> | |||
a single function, for the exercise of which every individual in<lb/> | |||
that so mischievously elevated situation, is not by that very<lb/> | |||
situation & by that vast mass of the <add>external</add> instruments of felicity<lb/> | |||
so heaped upon it, rendered in an eminent degree, more<lb/> | |||
flagrantly & unquestionably unapt than any other individual<lb/> | |||
in the whole community would be found to be: thus it is<lb/> | |||
that in every Monarchy all the rest of the people are made<lb/> | |||
victims to, & the apart of, the will of the very worst man<lb/> | |||
among them — of a man who in every intelligible sense of the<lb/> | |||
word <hi rend="underline">worst</hi> is rendered so, by the mere circumstance of<lb/> | |||
being situated where he is.</p> | |||
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46.
them shapes happen to be conferred as that are individual
at the expence of the greatest number, that which
he gains in actual felicity, bears no sort of proportion to
what they lose. So much for the of expence, in the
case of that form of Government: now as to relative & appropriate
aptitude say appropriate moral aptitude, appropriate
intellectual aptitude (knowledge & judgement included)
& appropriate active aptitude. While the exercise of
all the other functions of Government is made dependent on
the will of that one individual, there exists not, so much as
a single function, for the exercise of which every individual in
that so mischievously elevated situation, is not by that very
situation & by that vast mass of the external instruments of felicity
so heaped upon it, rendered in an eminent degree, more
flagrantly & unquestionably unapt than any other individual
in the whole community would be found to be: thus it is
that in every Monarchy all the rest of the people are made
victims to, & the apart of, the will of the very worst man
among them — of a man who in every intelligible sense of the
word worst is rendered so, by the mere circumstance of
being situated where he is.
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