[clxiv. 223]

1820 June 27

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

Corruption without Corrupter

If the profit thus produced by /to/ the functionaries in question by arrangements productive of a vastly perponderant mass of loss and misery /suffering/ to other men in vast multitudes be not an inducement the inducement by the force of which he is led /determined/ whether it to give creation /existence/ or to give preservation by his sole power or in conjunction with the power of others to those arrangements, and thereby to that loss and suffering, then neither is /has/ the profit which a swindler makes by sale of the valuables, which for the purpose of putting into his pocket the produce of the sale he has obtained by false pretences, operated on his mind an inducement to utter the false pretence, the elaborately /purposely/ prepared lies by means of which he obtained them from the too improvidently confiding proprietor: then neither is /has/ the money which a highway robber receives /has been receiving/ from a passenger been his inducement to committ the robbery: then neither has the money which a murderous highwayman has put into his pocket after murdering /shooting/ the passenger in the first instance to prevent him from saving his money from carrying his money away out of his reach an inducement to committ the murder.