[125-405]

20 Jan y 1817

Necessity Cat

II. Application

§.4. Constitution, present real state

V. Corruptive mode of operating

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Q. < > At first view, this seems a little novel: but I look to hear it familiarized and justified.

A. In the first place then let us consider how far in the persons to be operated upon the requisite sort and degree of susceptibility has place: for if the individual is corruption /poison[?]/ proof, all the poison[?] in the world if applied to him will not be productive of any effect. But in the nature of the case although in the class in question there should be here and there an individual who in every state of things is corruption proof though even this might be too much to depend upon yet unless this were the case with the greater number, no power in the […?] of political arrangements would be warranted on the supposition on any such supposition as that this sort of […?] /[…?]/ incorruptibility is to be found any where.