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Title: [14 Feb y 1813 Church II Topics Ch]

Description: 14 Feb y 1813

Church II Topics Ch.6

13 § 1 Abstract

Part 5. Power over persuasion

To have this may be satisfaction: answer to

or else it is equally competent to use the deceiving

and employ the same course, by , on each side

and and on every side

3. By every one who

approves the forcibly

deceptive process, evidence

is afforded that he

does not believe

propositions

asserted.

3. By every by when the application of the forcibly-deceptive

process has been conceived on, and as well as as also by way

or by whom such application that operation is solicited, supported,

defended recommended or approved, evidence is afforded [evidence of

the circumstantial kind] operating in proof of the proposition

that by that according to the persuasion of, in a greater or less proportion

the body of supposed facts the existence of which narrated by it is in and

by that asserted, and the body of propositions contained in it the truth of

which are asserted, are not true.

For unless men

have a

propensity to falshood

the odium & trouble

will be incurred

to no use

For, unless in his opinion there exists on the

part of mankind in general, when left free without force or forced to form their own

persuasions each man has his own persuasion, a predominant

propensity to embrace falshood in preference to truth - to form

wrong opinions instead of right ones, the trouble and odium

over and above the just mentioned circumstantial evidence of

falshood and insincerity attached to the employment employing of this

forcibly deceptive process - will be so much trouble taken

and odium incurred to no use.

In answer the

advocate of force

can only say that

though he is a

friend to truth

all others prefer

falshood.

In For answer to this objection observation argument there remains it

is true, is the character of an argument capable of being

employed by an advocate of the forcibly-deceptive system, an

assertion to that effect, viz. Though when left free and adequately informed mankind in general

are disposed and apt to embrace falshood in preference to truth, I, am

I, am an exception to this rule. It is a gift peculiar to myself

or shared with only a few whose persuasions accord with

mine. to embrace truth in preference to falshood. In

the present instance having accordingly embraced truth, and

seeing at the same time a majority of the persons concerned labouring

under the opposite unhappy propensity, I take this method of

of preserving them against from

the unhappy consequences.

JB_126_048.xml

Title: [27 Sep. 1809 Parl y Reform]

Description: 27 Sep. 1809

Parl y Reform

B.I. Necessity

'. Soil how prepared

Tests

' Tests imperito[?] and press enslavement

after 12

1

1

'. Parallel Relation between the exaction /imposition/ of tests and the enslavement of the press.

This tyranny /Tyranny in this shape/ (this force upon consciences) is exactly of a piece with that which aims at the instrument of the press.

It is subservient to the same ends: the prevention of intellectual improvement, the prevention of moral improvement: the securing upon the largest scale the sacrifice of the interest of the many to the interest of the few, by the hands and for the benefit of the few: the suppression of all useful truth, the propagation of all pernicious falshood: the exercise /extension and duration[?] taken into the account/ of self-profitable, self-serving wickedness upon the largest possible and imaginable scale; the propitiation of the maximum of imbicillity with its consequences, and the maximum of moral depravity among the greatest possible number, for the greatest possible length of time, for the benefit of the few, in the shape of undue emolument if possible, and to the greatest extent /amount/ possible, in the shape of undue reputation at any rate, and of undue and misexercised /misemployed/ power.

It is exercised as far as occasion serves by the same hands: and the same frame of mind which disposes a man to exercise /for the exercise of/ tyranny in the one shape disposes him for the exercise of it in the other shape. The same man /mind/ whose delight would be in the robes /habit/ of a lawyer /judge/ to return or punish to destruction every man who should presume to call in question the fitness of any person placed by whatever hand in a high situation, would in the habit of a priest or with the soul of a priest in his bosom find congenial delight in forcing into men's mouths the /the sort of/ drinking[??] horn invented for administering tests. Happen what will the tyrant has not lost[?] his labour. The poison is it rejected? a man of virtue is punished, excluded from his share in the common benefit of society vitious[?] man[?] exempted from the pressure of his controuling hand, and society itself excluded from /deprived of/ the benefit of his health[?]-inspiring influence

JB_005_229_001.xml

Title: [14 Feb y 1813 + Church Ch.6]

Description: 14 Feb y 1813 +

Church Ch.6

8 Abstract

Part 5.

The forcibly deceptive process includes the

upon it .

Persuasion producible

by the free deceptive

process. without

coercion. Hell &

heaven the instruments

Without the aid of any temporal coercive authority,

by force borrowed from the religious sanction, it is not individual

power may suffice out of the power of the individual to produce persuasion by

what may be termed the free deceptive process freely deceptive exercise. or process

of free deception. In the hands of time is whence while zeal is strong and

knowledge is weak, for the production of persuasion by this process hell flames and heavenly joy, are instruments of

experienced potency.

Where coercion

is employed, it is

the forced deceptive

process

When coercive authority enters the field, and puts brings

its force into in action as above, the process which it employs

may be termed the process of forced deception or forcibly

deceptive or deceptitious process (a)

(a) Note in a separate page.

While the forcibly

deceptive process is carried

on freely deceptive

do is carried

on at the same

time by other hands

spite of coercion

indigenous persuasion

and its adoptive

following it breaks out.

And authority

is against all being

thus pitted against

authority, the

hater of insincerity

frequently

the coercive deception,

and takes

to the self deceptive

process.

When the forcibly-deceptitious process has been carried goes on by one set of hands

on, the freely deceptive process is by another set of

hands naturally and consciously carried on along in conjunction with it.

By the forcibly deceptitious process the production of a quantity

of adoptive persuasion on the subject and on the side

desired is as above, . but on the other hand, spite of

whatsoever force may have been applied by the coercive

authority for the suppression of it, indigenous persuasion on

the side opposite to the authoritative side will here and

there have broken out:- indigenous persuasion, by which

with a probability in some measure proportioned to the rectitude correctness

of such indigenous persuasion a quantity mass of adoptive

persuasion operating on the same side

will also have been produced. Here then will be authority

against authority: reason against reason: argument against

argument. Pressed between the forcibly-produced and the freely

produced arguments, the mind which in any way finds itself

called upon to make a declaration on the side expressed

by force, will be apt to feel a sort of pain proportioned

in its intensity to any laws which it may happen have happened to have

contracted for the virtue of sincerity, to any aversion hatred which it may

have happened to it to have contracted for the opposite vice. To For rid

rid ridding itself as far as

may be from this uneasiness,

it has will find but

one response, viz. in the

freely- deceptive process

the above described

in this case in respect

of the person by whom

it is employed distinguishable by the name of the self-deceptive process.