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1821. April 9. First Lines Moral aptitude is inversely as aptitude in the seale of political
prosperity, political influence - seale of power, opulence
and factitious dignity

Education being supposed not deficient, nor subsistence
wanting.

Aptitude, with relation to the exercise of political
power, is inversely as the height of a man's place in the
composite seale of political influence. This composite seale
is composed of three elementary seales, the seal of opulence
the seale of power, and the seale of factitious dignity.(a.)

In the seale of opulence, language has not yet afforded,
as in the seale of temperature, denominations designative
here and there of the different degrees. No precise
station, therefore, can here be designated by the terms opulent
and unopulent. All that can be expressed is their relative
stations: viz. that in the station marked by the term
opulent, the station quantity of the matter of opulence is
greater than in the station marked unopulent

With relation to useful qualities in general,
and in particular with relation to those of which appropriate
aptitude with relation to political functions in general
is composed, the following are the considerations by
which, on the part of the opulent; inferiority appropriate aptitude
considered in all its branches, inferiority stands indicated.

1. As to moral aptitude

1. The greater the quantity in value of the services which, at
the hands of those on whom his comforts depend, a man has
at command, without rendering any correspondent services
in return — services positive and negative together — positive
consisting in the exercise of positive beneficence, negative
consisting in the exercise of negative beneficence, that is to say
forbearance from injury and annoyance in all their shapes, the
less the need he feels for the exercise of such beneficence on his part.

Note (a.) The seale of factitious dignity - for shortness instead of saying
the seale of factitious causes of respect.

2. The

Identifier: | JB/036/014/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-04-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	22-23
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	014	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c11 / c1 / e10
Penner	jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	10938
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