4 Dec 1809 Ch.1. '.2 +

Parl y Ref m

Influence

Ch.1. Explanations

'. Dependence how produced

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strange[?] as fair or market

desirable thing or object

'. Corrupt dependence, by what means producible /how produced/.

The instruments by which dependence is produced by which a man is placed and kept in a state of dependence are all resolvable into two {assortments viz. hopes and fears}: hope the expectation /prospect/ of good; fear the expectation /prospect/ of evil.

Note?

Even Hope and fear have each of them a mixture of the other: for unless the acquisition be looked upon as being at the highest degree /pitch/ of certainty, hope of gaining can not exist without some fear of not gaining intermixt with it: fear of losing, without some hope of not losing intermixed with it.

But where the probability /chances/ of enjoyment is regarded as the greater, hope is the word employed: fear in the opposite case.

Fear may exist without the prospect of good in any shape as in the case of suffering expected to be inflicted under the name of punishment: hope, unless preceded by fear, can not: unless preceded by fear, as in the case of punishment expected in the first instance but the expectation accompanied or followed by an /a counter/ explanation of deliverance.

In the case of parliamentary corruption some instrument of enjoyment some object of desire - some portion of the matter of position good is commonly the instrument which in the character of an instrument of corruption and thence of corrupt dependence is employed: in this case the only fear which has place is that which has for its object a portion of the matter of positive good for its object and consists in the fear either of not gaining or of not keeping it or of not gaining it.