21 Jan y. 1810

Parl y. Reform

Influence

Ch.2. Influence

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If this mode of taking a view of a subject were not allowed of viz. viewing it by proxy as it were and through other eyes, it would not be very easy to say what part of the business of life, extraordinary or even ordinary would be able to go forward: and in what degree if in any the condition of the[?] human would be preferable to that of the quadruped race of the irrational part of the animal kingdom.

Not that this observation would of itself be sufficient to justify that part of the definition which is in question /the definition[?], which is the thing objected to/. But what applies directly to the objection is this: of the very matter in question in this case as well as the other a view is by the understanding in question taken: the only difference /difference/ is, that in the one case the view is direct and particular and direct; in the other general, indirect and /oblique [...?], and comparatively/ remote.

But in this case the main question /object of consideration/ is - not the sort of influence by which, in the case in question the man's conduct is determined, but the sort of influence by which it is not determined. To the fulfilment of the obligation in question - to the fulfilment of the condition in question to the due exercise of the trust in question what is necessary is that in the formation of the will by which the conduct is determined, no other will nor so much as any supposition concerning any other will should have had any part: and this condition is equally fulfilled whether of the judgment pronounced the ground was composed of a set of particular reasons or of no other particulars than a mass of authority - intellectual authority, as above described.