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13 August 1804 Procedure False
13 August 1804

Procedure

False ends

A corporation (it might be observed with equal propriety) has no ------. The truth of this proposition is the joint result of two distinct causes. In a case where humanity - regard for the interests, sympathy for the sufferings of determinate individuals concurs with the power of the ------ ------ love of reputation in --- engaging mass conduct and language on the side of the most extended public interest of that form which in the eyes of the public and perhaps of the agent himself would appear to be the form of the party rival principle - the principle of ------ ------ a great part will be a ----- the form of the semi-sound principle, the law of regulation, or perhaps the ---- prejudice of fashion /propensity to ------/. When the distant voice of genuine public interest has been drowned /the ---- of the ----/ by the voice of specious public interest - the sinister interest of a small part /-----/ of the public. Such part of the comprized form as in the case of individual agency acting in pursuit of individual interest would have consisted of the form of moral ---- and on that character have acted on the same side as /side of/ the public interest is now ----- against that interest, and acts on the side of the sinister interest - the interest of the particular body.

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    Nor yet is the legislator the only person to whom the name of moral obligation, or what here comes to the same thing the sense of general /public/ interest will in proportion as it is understood and attended to, ----- to regard the sinister interest with a jealous eye. To the lot of individuals - to each in proportion to the opportunities that fall within his reach within the sphere within /in/ which it happens to move, it may fall to /may find themselves called upon/ to take their parts in watching the ------ and counteracting the designs of the common adversary.
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