1822 June 12

Economy etc

The manner in which it is productive of the corruptive effect, namely the sinister sacrifice, is this: in the event of his performing or according to his situation contributing to the mischievous effect - to the performance of the sinister sacrifice, the functionary in question receives or looks to receive the correspondent sinister profit: in the opposite event, not; of this profit the contemplation is /constitutes/ the inducement, the temptation, the tempting and seductive motive by the force of which his conduct is in this case determined, and the sinister act produced.

To produce this corruptive effect in the mind and conduct of the thus corrupted functionary it is not on any occasion necessary that any discourse /intercourse/, either in the way of discourse or even in the way of purposed deportment should have place between him, and any individual by whose /the contemplation of whose eventually/ expected agency the corruptive effect - the sinister sacrifice - is produced. All that is necessary is - in the two situations, namely that of the corrupting functionary and that of the functionary corrupted that of the corrupter and that of the corrupted /corruptee/ two habitually corresponding lines of conduct: the one contributing to the sinister sacrifice in question in the way in question, the other placing within his reach the portion of the matter of corruption in the shape in question - in a word the sinister profit, and /of which/ the corruptee thereupon the corruptee takes hold /lays his hand/, and makes application of it to his own use and converts it into his own use.