JB/036/048/001

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1821 May 15.
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2. Evils of corruption

By corruption considered in itself, no one of the evils which as above
have been seen produced by force & intimidation are produced. But
as compared with force and intimidation, corruption has the same object
and effect, viz sacrifice of the greatest interest of the greatest number, to
the interests real or imagined of the ruling one with or without the
interests of the sub-ruling few.

Moreover of the sub-instruments of corruption viz money, power
and factitious dignity, money the most surely & extensively influential
is not obtained but by means of force & intimidation: thus far
then in the evils of corruption, the evils of force & intimidation are
involved.

If the influence of force and intimidation is more irresistible,
and; for the present, the most effective, the influence of corruption
is more permanent: and the exclusion of it is the more hopeless.

By force and intimidation, resentment is excited; and, in
desire and endeavour, retribution called forth: by corruption, no such
hostile passion, no such hostile endeavour or desire are produced.

By corruption — by corruption influence on the one part,
and corrupt obsequiousness on the other part — the irritation produced
by force and intimidation is allayed.

Corruption, though a deadly poison, is a slow one: a poison
by the progress of which no particular alarm at any particular period is produced:
no alarm at any period in any degree approaching in magnitude
to that of the real danger or the real mischief.

By every atom added to that of the existing mass of the matter
of corruption, the effective force of the whole is of course encreased:
by every addition made to it, the facility of making further additions
to it is thereby encreased: the less sensible are the subject many at
whose expense the matter extracted, not only to the mischief produced
by it, as above, but also to the evils produced by the force and
the intimidation by which it is produced: and while on the part
of the sufferers themselves — while on the part of those by whom
the suffering is experienced the sensibility to it is diminished, no
wonder if on the part of those by whom the suffering is inflicted,
the reluctance, whatsoever, if any, may at any time have existed,
is diminished likewise.

Note, making exemplifications from the English Government.

Identifier: | JB/036/048/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1821-05-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	048	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	john flowerdew colls; richard doane	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	10972
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