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1810 + ' 4 4 23 Fallacies
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Fallacies Ch. | | Authority worshipper

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4. Churchmen's Sinister interest

'. 4 II. Churchmen - Oppositeness of their interest to the universal interest.

'. 3. Example the 2\T dT\ - Churchmen.

In the former instance it has been shewn that on the question what on such or such a subject ought to be lawm the considered[?] /[...?]/ opinion of a lawyer as such presented in the character of authority, either /of/ in company with specific reasons /arguments/ on the same side has no claim to notice, if unaccompanied with reasons /specific arguments/ on the same side, and thus opposed to specific arguments on the other side, belongs to the list of fallacies, and in proportion to the regard paid can have no other than a deceptitous tendency.

On that same occasion The cause of that tendency was moreover pointed out: and that was the sinister interest to the action of which every learned[?] advocate and as the [...?] in which as Judges are paid in so large a proportion at present /under the existing order of things/ the probity /[...?]d/ and sincerity of every Judge taken from the class of Advocates stands exposed.

The same reason applies to the case of the professional Churchman.

As, in the case of the man of law, the objection on the score of /viz./ sinister interest applies only to the question what ought to be law (i.e. /viz./ if not as yet law, made so if law /made so/ already, kept to) - not to the question what is lawm so in the case of the Churchman the objection applies only to the question what in the subject religionought to be law, not to the question what on the subject /in relation to this or that point/ of religion it is reasonable to look upon as right or to believe to be true.
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    1. That where /in a case /cases// insincerity may to an unlimited extent be practiced without possibility of detection, especially for /particularly to/ any such purpose as that of punishment or general dishonour /disrepute/, rewards attached to the practice of such insincerity, rewards rising as high as to[?] [...?] [...?] several times greater than what is allotted to /in/ a [...?] by whom the whole business of the [...?] is directed, have no tendency to produce insincerity /it/;

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