1819 Aug. 13 ult

Fallacy Ch | | Logical Highfliers

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1. Exposition

O/I/n all these occasions /instances,/ including not only these three appellatives, but the four appellatives brought to view in the first instance, two objects, bearing to each other the sort of relation designated /expressible/ by the words the foul spot, and the cover, may be distinguished /may be observed/ nearer to, and the cover, or to use the common proverb the cap being such as fits the foul place more exactly than in those others.

1. Influence it is that affords the instance by which this exactness of fitting seems most plainly to be exemplified.

Foul spot, corruption: corruption considered whether in it applications by the Monarch to the so styled Representatives of the people, or by persons, endeavouring to place themselves among those Representatives, to any of the small number of individuals among the people who in the appointment of these Representatives are admitted to act in the character of representatives: corruption, including that particular mode of it which stands distinguished /prominent/ under the name of bribery: corruption, not to speak of that mode of seduction which though as yet so much less noticed is so much more mischievous than the foulest of every thing to which the name of corruption has ever been applied. Foul spot, say the corruption: cover or cap, influence

Influence is then distinguishable into legitimate and illegitimate or sinister. Legitimate influence is influence of understanding on understanding in all cases: influence moreover of will on will in other cases nut not in this: influence on all those cases in which power of which influence is a modification and that generally speaking /on the whole/ a milder /softer/ one, but not in

this. this.