[xxxvi. 31]

1821. April 24.

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III. Delusion. It remains to be shown how it is that, by one and the same quantity of the matter of wealth consumed in waste - wsted in the vain endeavour to inject an additional quantity of happiness into a receptacle over and over again disabled from the capacity of receiving any more - how, by this same quantity of wealth, in addition to the purpose of producing corrupt obsequiousness, the purpose of producing delusion is but too effectually and intensively accomplished.

In the case where production of corrupt obsequiousness was the object, the persons on /over/ /to/ whom the operation was performed were the sub-ruling influential and opulent few, with no other addition than that of that comparatively small portion of the subect many, to the effect of producing correspondent corrupt obsequiousness. the corruptive influence of those their superiors could be extended /applied/. In the case of delusion, the persons, on whom the operation is performed / in whose instance/ on whom/ the effect is endeavoured to be produced, are, in adition to the sub ruling, the influential and the opulent few - (for these are not less exposed to, nor less susceptible of, the delusion than the many) - the subject many likewise: in a word, the whole of the community without exception - the Royal Chief /Head/ himself, by whom the benefit /profit/ of the delusion was reapedin the greatest abundance, not excepted.

By delusion, on this occasion as on thers, understand

On this as on other occasions, such is the ambiguity and imperfection of language, to the word delusions as to so many others that exhibit the same grammatical form, sometimes the /an/ active sense, sometimes a passive sense, is atributive of this as of so many other words wearing the same grammatical form, use is made sometimes in an active, sometimes in a passive sense: sometimes it is employed to designate the act whereby an erroneous opinion is produced, sometimes the erroneous opinion so produced