4 Dec 1809

Parl y Ref m

Influence

'. Dependence how produced

2

The object of desire - the desirable thing - may be either a thing the receivable nature of which is to be received all at once such as a sum of money once paid, or a thing the nature of which is to be received only in parcels or instalments, in respect of which the several acts of delivery and receipt delivery on one part receipt on the other are spread over a more or less considerable length of time as in the case of a pension a lucrative office the use of a house or the use occupation or profit of a portion of land.

{As it is only either by hope or fear that dependence is created, so it is}

In regard to the connection between corruption and dependence, so intimate is the connection between these two objects, that the difficulty /only difficulty which it admitts of/ consists not in conceiving how corruption should be productive of dependence - corrupt dependence - but how it should fail of being thus productive. But though extremely rare the case in which it is barren of dependence, and thence almost barren of evil is not altogether without example.

As it is only by hope or fear that dependence can be created, so the only case in which, corruption being employed, dependence fails of being produced, is the case in which the receipt of the benefit is neither preceded nor followed by any hope or fear having respect /that benefit for its object/: viz. neither by the hope of receiving it, nor by the fear of not receiving it, or of losing it.