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May 1810
Defence of Economy
Ch.
'. Influence convenient
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Where in compliance with custom the word influence is employed, and tokens of reprobation attached at the same time to the thing it is employed to express, explanations or restrictions ought then all along to be kept constantly attached to it.
1. First that it is over the will of some person that it is exercised, and that by the will of some one else
2. That the person by whom it is exercised is a person on whose conduct the person over whose will it is exercised is designed and supposed to operate as a check
3. Thirdly, that in the instances in question its operation has been effectual /effective/ - i.e. that on the part of the person on whose will the influence has been exercised, obsequiousness as towards the influences will have been produced: and that no doubt may remain, that such conduct has been produced, as but for the exercise of the influence would not on the part of the person in question, have had place.
If of the person on /to/ whose will the influence has applied itself the conduct is exactly the same as it would have been had no such influence applied itself the influence is to every practical purpose no influence at all. Not having been productive on any effect at all it can not have been productive of any bad effect.
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Title: [10 June 1810 + Influence 1]Description: 10 June 1810 + Influence 1 Ch. ' " Influence" convenient 1 '. Influence - convenience found in the word by those who defend /the defenders of/ the King in the case in which it is pernicious /undue/. The only species of influence - which can in any case with propriety be taken for the object of reprobation is the influence of will over will - in other words the only case in which the thing designated by the appellation of influence can with propriety be taken for the object of reprobation is that which /by will/ is exercised by will over will: against the influence of understanding over understanding as one can find any thing to object: no demand for any thing to be said in defence of it can therefore be found by any one. Yet /Meantime/ It is without any intimation given of this distinction of the limitation[?] that results /resulting/ from it, that influence continues to be attached, that influence continues to be defended, to be apologized for of defended. In this state of things to those to whose lot it falls to him[?] to act or speak in defence of influence in the case or cases if such there be in which the /a/ thing called influence any such apellant as undue, sinister, or mischievous /or corrupt/ is with propriety applied, the ambiguity here generality and ambiguity here in question affords no small advantage.
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Title: [10 June 1810 Influence Ch.]Description: 10 June 1810 Influence Ch. ' Influence convenient 2 This /The/ ambiguity, and along with it the advantage it affords to the defenders of abuse, shews itself in two forms /shapes/ - 1. In the first place comes the property which the word has of bringing to view /presenting to the mind/ along with the object which is really noxious another, and to at least an equal extent which is really innoxious. The good being thus confounded with the bad in /under/ the same appellation, the person with the {remedy} /useful medicament/ /aliment/, it is not without diffidence and hesitation /faultering/ that a man can bring himself to pass condemnation on both together, on the compound and unanalysed mass. 2. Another circumstance which contributes, how imperceptibly soever contributes to blunt the edge of resentment and censure when directed against this object /influence/, is the uncertainly in which /the cloud of uncertainty which hovers over/ the efficiency of the thing /influence/ /power in question/ is involved. As there may be influence which is not /not being/ exercised over the will is on that account innoxious, so there may be influence which though exercised over the will, over a will over which it ought not be exercised, at least by the person by or on the part of whom it is exercised, is till not noxious /innoxious/. For on any given occasion to be noxious i.e. to be productive of a noxious effect it must be productive of some effect, but without producing any noxious effect, without producing any effect at all, it may happen to influence to have been exercised. It will have been thus inefficiently exercised, if when exercised on one part, it is not followed by correspondent obsequiousness on the other.
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Title: [11 June 1810 Influence 1]Description: 11 June 1810 Influence 1 Ch. '. Influence convenient 5 In the situations here in question, influence of will over will is neither more nor less than corruption. But Corruption is a term never is understood to be with grammatical propriety /properly/ applied, but it carries with it an expression of disapprobation, applied /of disapprobation applying itself/ to the conduct of him at least who is considered as the party corrupted. Influence /Of the word influence the use/ can not be understood as uniformly expressive /indicative/ of /accompanied with/ any such mark /sentiment/ of disapprobation {so directed /excited/}. Corruption is what /under its own name /that its name/ no man deems /finds/ it advisable to defend: when therefore he takes upon him to defend it, he discards /discarding/ and carefully avoids to employ this name, he looks out for some term of which it can not be said that it is inapplicable to the thing in question, viz. corruption, but which at the same time shall not bear upon the face of it any such stamp of reprobation /carry along with it any such note of disapprobation/: and this comparatively unobnoxious term /appellative/ he finds in the word influence, In the language of the Greeks there was a word that signified as well medicine as poison. In the use of this word a convenience could not but have occasionally been found by poisoners.
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