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1823 July 7
Constitut. Code

9. VIII. The inducement, or any the motive or motives, by
which, on the part in the mind of the corruptee the sinister service and with it
the sinister effect, is produced.

This will be altogether different, according as the corruption receipt
of the sinister benefit is, in respect of relative time antecedential or consequential
as above.

The simplest case is Of the two cases the simplest is that where
the receipt is subsequential. In this case, expectation, hope of
the benefit in question is the determining motive or say inducement
– moving pleasure the pleasure of expectation: the pleasure
produced by the contemplation of the pleasures which the possessor
will, it is expected afford: that by the contemplation of those same pleasures
accompanied as it is with the belief more or less intense,
of their future existence, moving productive desire, the desire of such possession.

In the case of where the receipt is precedential, the motive
the inducement must be of a quite different cast stamp. With relation to the
parti individual benefit in question, pleasure hope of expectation it
cannot be: for by possession, expectation has been crowned and
terminated: desire of possession it cannot be: for by possession, desire
is satisfied and extinguished.

Suppose If this the sinister service is rendered, inducement motives of
a different kind are what the act must have had for its causes.
These will be found to be as follows: namely

1. Gratitude, meaning the sentiment of gratitude: sympathy for
the corrupter, the benefactor – sympathy produced by the contemplation
of the enjoyment received from his han benevolent affective
and beneficent hands.

Fear of the reproach of ingratitude, combined or no
namely in the event of the non-rendering the sinister service
for the obtainment of which the sinister benefit has been conferred
on the one part, received on the other. That which is called ingratitude If In so far as in the case of this sort
is the subject of reproach, it is because this is one of the points on
which the force of the Public Opinion Tribunal has been made to operate in a
direction unfavorable to the greatest happiness of the greatest number, namely
by a judgment which has for its cause sinister interest on the part of the aristocratical
Section of that same Tribunal, and relative ignorance on the part of the more numerous Section – the democratical – See post §. 3. Gratitude at large is a sentiment
which, in every other breast (not to speak of his own) every individual, in proportion as he understands his interest sees it to be his interest to cherish: in gratitude for past kindnesses he will see
his need of future ones.

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Date_1	1823-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	32-36
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	231	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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