4 Dec 1809

Parl y Ref m

Influence

'. Dependence how produced

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Though by a single benefit received and conferred and received all at once no dependence is not produced, yet by two or more such benefits it may happen that dependence /corrupt dependence/ shall be produced.

But in this case the production of the dependence depends upon the production of hope, looking to benefit from the same source. Hope in the /some corrupted/ breast looking to the receipt of future benefits from the same corrupting hand.

In the natural course of things, and in default of special grounds for the contrary expectation, as between protector and protegé, every good benefit is considered as a pledge and earnest of future benefits, howsoever indeterminate and contingent, as about to flow into the same reservoir from the same source.

If on my first coming into a new neighbourhood I send for a shoemaker in the same street, and after having been /after being/ measured bespoke of him a pair of shoes, by this transaction, a hope of my custom in future is naturally excited in {my} /his/ breast, and in a degree correspondent to the expected value of my custom, he is by this transaction placed in my dependence.

If instead of thus dealing with a shoemaker to whom I am known, I drop into a Yorkshire warehouse where I am not known, and there with ready money, and without making myself known buy and carry with me a pair of shoes ready made, by this transaction I create not in the breast of the master of the shop any such dependence.