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1822 Aug. 31
Constitut. Code

Thus it is that an the operation called corruption has been performed:
and to by the res same word corruption the result
of the operation – the state of things brought about by it is
designated.

In the operation thus described, by the corruptor party corrupting
corruptive influence has been exercised: by the party
corrupted – say in one word on the mentioned
and recommended by Blackstone the corruptee, corrupt
obsequiousness has been practiced.

In the idea thus brought to view is commonly
also comprised that of another an auxiliary agent, considered as
being employed as an instrument by the principal one.
This instrument is a quantity of what may be stiled the matter of
corruption employed in that same character of an
instrument.⊞ ⊞ Applied in a the physical
sense and to
a physical subject,
this instrument is
what is called a
ferment. This matter employed is an instrument
to act upon the mind of its operator, it is in the character
of inducement an inducement that it operates.

An inducement is constituted either of the matter
of evil or of the matter of good operating on the mind
in those their respective characters.

An inducement to which the name of corruption
might without impropriety be attached is an inducement
of the intimidatory kind. Say for example the fear of death: intimation
being given that if the one arty namely the party meant to be

Note (a)
The ambiguity and confusion produced by the denoting by
one and the same word two objects so materially different and
so frequently requiring to be distinguished – the performance of one operation and the
state of things which is the result of it is an inconvenience
which runs through all European languages: through all such at
least as have the Latin for one of their roots.

Identifier: | JB/036/199/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-08-31	Marginal Summary Numbering	4, 4a, 5-6
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	199	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b2 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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