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1822 Aug. 12.
or 1.
Power is mischievous
in so far as needless.
Of factitious dignity, the
whole.
or 2.
1. eff the expence of all
it is conferred.
or 3.
The produce is not obedience
indeed such obsequiousness;
ire conformaly
to another's will.
or 4.
Persons to whom it
produces obsequiousness
are
1. The patron.
2. The dignitary
Towards the patron
most.
or 5.
Opinions it produces
1. That to the dignitary
belong power, opulence
and the good will of
the patron. This is commonly
more or less
true.
2 them, endowments
sending to render him
contributory to greatest
happiness, this is
always false.
or 6.
Factitious dignity is
the factitious cause
of factitious respect.
or 7.
Its product a confused
and indeterminate
mass of opinions
and conceptions
Principal ingredients
are —
1. he the dignitary, power
preeminent.
2. In do opulence do
3. Do in habits with
men equal and even
superior in dignity,
and thence, or otherwise,
in power and
opulence.
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or 7 contind.
4. In do peace in the
patron's esteem or affection
or both; thereas
chance of obtaining
for others benefits such
as the patron can bestow.
5. In do qualities giving
him means and will
to contribute to greatest
happiness. True,
the first four false,
the 5th true, the reverse.
or 8.
curious and lamentable
its efficiency in the
production of the false
opinion, mischievous as
it is.
or 9.
In every case, the dignity
has for evidence of
its existence the instrument
or each by which
it is conferred: accompanied
commonly with
some symbol visible
and conspicuous, ex.
, ribbon, star, medal,
etc.
or 10.
Efficient cause of this
power in symbols or
signs, the associations
.
or 11.
Curious the irresistible
force with which they
operate in the production
of this effect.
Behold a set of men
whom taken in the aggregate
my judgment
pronounces below the
average in the scale of
worth, moral and intellectual.
yet by the sight of
any one is produced
the conception of the opposite
superiority.
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or 12.
Cause of the inconsistency
train of associations
produced by authority in
all shapes and from all
sources from the earliest
dawn of reason. For
the introduction of the
false conception a
of turn of a moment suffices: for
the expulsion, of all nothing
left then a train of affections.
can
or 13.
So in case of Ghosts
At the first moment of
Darkness opens the soon
imagination .
to their To bunch their
with the of judgment
judgment can it
can
long life
existence in Ghosts is the
not more fabulous
than worth, moral or intellectual,
in those creatures
of , state
Dignitaries.
or 14.
Source or corrgegration
of the error, adulation adulation,
chief instrument of dissemination,
books; first
the pen, now the press.
In dignitaries, writers have
beholden possessors of power
and opulence to which,
in return for eulogy, they
have looked for benefit
to themselves.
Of the receipt of those benefits
the probability (they
say) would be not as the
moral or intellectual
worth of the dignitary:
such as his kindness towards
them, which again
would be as the intensity
of their eulogy on him.
or 15.
Factitious dignity, has it
in any stage of society
been contributory to greatest
happiness?
or 16.
Evil this institution has
been produced above. Needless,
by experiences: of it.
: original numbers 13.
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Ch.
G.
S. I. who
Cause of the
upon it. G
by it
, 4. 5
of and
and un
conquerable of
. 11. 12. 13
cause of the
influence associate
. 8. 9. 10. 11.
In in the conduct
and mind of .
3. 4. 5
In mischievous .
1. 2. 19. 18
present & 24.
of the elements of effective
power this one
excluded; the
government not impaired,
but improved:
all benefits greater
without than with
it.
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