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8 May 1811 Influence P.I
8 May 1811

Influence

P.I

Ch. 2. J.B.s Propositions

9

Insert in this page the efficiency[?] of corruption including bribery will be found next to nothing: d o of coercive influence every thing. Under the name of influence of property, even eulogized.

To this disapprobation /blame/ all such persons as are considered as operated upon with effect or considered as operating upon others with effect in any of these two modes, in which will is exercisable on will are accordingly habitually and generally /at the hands of persons in general/ subjected.

By that mode of influence which is exercised by the production of eventual force this obnoxious effect is produced with much greater force and certainty, in so far then as exercised in either of those two ways it is pernicious, exercised in this third way it is in a proportionable degree more pernicious. But when exercised in this most efficient way be not being so readily or universally understood to be characterized by /designated by/ and comprehended under the term corruption and its /or any of the/ conjugation of that word, the degree of blame and disapprobation if any which it has the effect of printing and fixing on the person or persons in any way engaged in the obnoxious practice in question /exercise of the influence in question/ is not, by a great deal so considerable.

There it is that that mode of influence which in efficiency and practice is by far the most pernicious is either not at all disreputable or if so in any degree in by far the least degree disreputable - say rather not at all disreputable, but eulogized openly eulogized and defended. The consequence is that while for the suppression of that mode of influence which /in that mode in which/ is productive of little or no /in by far the least degree of/ practical mischief legal measures have been adopted, the defence /protection/ and extension of that mode in which it is in by far the greatest degree effective and perman t have from the highest authority been recommended and enforced[?].
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