25 Dec r 1809 + '2

Parl y Reform

Ch.6. Parl. Corruption Member[?]

' 3.1 Corruptor, King

2 dependents mind

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'.2. Mischief to the mind of the individual corrupted - habitual insincerity.

The mind - the mind of the individual on this occasion - is the seat of that depravity which on this occasion affords so much matter of lamentation to the hypochondriac and the hypocrite.

For the statement Of the effect of the disorder on the mind of the Member neither will there be much to say /will many words be necessary/.

In so far as by the Member in question /himself/, this sort of dependence and habitual obsequiousness is either {unnoticed} unreflected upon, or believed to be right, in so far the moral part of his mental frame is not injured by it.

Admitting therefore that in so comporting himself he does wrong, yet forasmuch as to himself /to his own eyes/ he appears not to be doing wrong, he will not for the wrong, what he does unknowingly /he does/ in this case be the more likely to do wrong knowingly in another. But unfortunately in this case is comprized the whole field of legislation and government: and the measure being given, and that by the supposition a wrong one, in what part of the frame the cause of the worst[?] /wrong/ be to be looked over, - whether in the moral or the intellectual, does not seem to be of any great importance.

{Note well that it is only at the expence of the intellectual part that the moral part of the frame can be [...?]}