16 Jan y. 1810

Parl y. Reform

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But that it can have been that species of influence that it was his intention to present to view in that light is more than I am able to persuade myself. For the "possessions of property" are the things which on this same occasion he speaks of as being the agents or instruments by which the species of influence which he had in view is exercised, {and how it is that by these instruments any influence should be exercised by the [...?]} how of /as to/ these instruments the ways in which by means of them the will of one man exercises {an} influence and that with the most irresistible efficacy on the will of another man are plain to every body and in the course of these pages have /are/ over and over been brought to view: but whereas of these same instruments of any way in which by means of them the undertaking of one man can exercise influence on the understanding of any other no /{not any}/ intimation not any even the most distant intimation have I been able to find in the course of this speech.

That by the faculty it affords to a man of doing at pleasure good and even without fear of being punished for it, evil to multitudes of men in the character either of tenants or men having goods or labour to all a property of ,50,000 or ,100,000 a year will enable the possessor of it to exercise by his will influence on other wills in no small number is what every one sees without difficulty: