16 Jan y. 1810

Parl y. Reform

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Now this position is one which to my view of the matter appears to be inconsistent with true morality: and /viz. as/ to involve in it, and if only by implication, yet by an implication altogether necessary, a defence /an adoption/ of the system of corruption in any the worst applications that can be made of it.

The term influence I have already had occasion to speak of as susceptible of two very different applications, having the effect of dividing it into two species, in their conceptions as dissimilar to and in their effects as opposite to one another as any two species of acts /things/ that can be imagined: I mean influence of understanding on understanding, and influence of will on will.

If {it were} the influence exercised by /of/ understanding over understanding if it were that which it was the intention of the Right Honorable Orator /this passage /doctrine// to present to view as that which may and must and ought to have by[?] predominating, in that case it would as little be in my inclination as in my power to depart/ find any reason for departing/ from it.