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Codification Other Constitut. Code
Appendix
Supreme Operation
1. Monarch's
§. 5. Draughtsman Single
Note
154 77(a)
In a Monarchy, causes
of the connection between
happiness of rulers and do.
of subjects.
1. Monarchy absolute.
Cause 1. Proportioned to the
number of existing subjects
is the greatest mass of the
external instruments of
his felicity extractible by
Monarch: and inseparable
from existence are the
comforts by which existence
is continued to the individual
and the species.
Thus far, though by his
operations, felicity is
produced to them by him, no
thought is employed to that
end.
155
2. Cause 2. Monarch's fear
of resistance, and retribution
for injury: i.e. for
infelicity, produced by
increase of his felicity at
the expence of otheirs.
156
To no Monarch can
subject many have ever
failed, or ever ceased, to
be objects of contempt and
hatred.
3. Causes of the contempt.
1. Smallness of the share left
them in the instruments
of felicity.
2. Intellectual weakness
manifested by submission to
such treatment, and to the
corruption and delusion
applied to them.
3. Contempt consummate,
hatred none: as contempt
lessens, hatred comes on
and increases.
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§. 5. Draughtsman Single
Note
157 7(a) contend.
4. Of some portion of
hatred, the absence is
impossible: viz. that produced
by the incapacity of
their labour to keep pace
with his demands.
5. Of another, the presence
is contingent: viz. that
which has place when, by
depredation and oppression,
patience has been
made to give place to
visible impatience and
discontent, whence,
apprehended disaffection,
resistance, insurrection.
6. Now, with the hatred, is
produced fear: harm
eventually, diminution
of misrule.
True, of fear, hatred is a
natural conseqhence: &
of hatred, exacerbation aggregation of
misrule. Here comes
conflict between self-regarding
and anti-social affection:
victor, most commonly the
anti-social: thence by
unendurable producing
revolution.
158
7. Man hates others more
than he loves himself, a
paradox: but gratification
of anti-social affection
is self-love. To restrain it,
requires self-command:
the more used to command
others, the less he is to
command himself.
159
8. II. Monarchy limited.
By same causes in
subruling few are produced
contempt and hatred of
subject many: yet incidentally
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