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22 July 1810 29 Fallacies Ch. |
22 July 1810 29

Fallacies Ch. | | Authority worshipper

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4. Churchman's Sinister interest

In Ireland, of the people from whom the money is extorted that is applied in payment of this mixture of useless offices and sinecures and useless offices nine-tenths (+) refuse to listen to such instruction or regarding it as worse than useless, charging themselves with the expence of other /a different system of/ instruction on the main[?] subject such as in their eyes appears useful and conducive to its prfessed purpose: of which nine tenths /in the eyes of [...?]/ about seven eighths (||) the effect of such instruction if listened to would be not merely /simply/ pernicious, but instead if felicitous[?] conducive to infinite and eternal misery, inasmuch that in their eyes whatever part of this money is bestowed in sinecures is bestowed in paying men for doing mischief.

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    If at their word /nod/ vice and virtue can in this instance be made to change their nature, so may they in every other instance in which it can happen to them to see their advantage in such changes: 1 the grossest absurdity /absurdities/ may be made /taken/ to pass for good sense /sense and reason/, /form inquiry may be considered /regarded/ as privation instead of /and not/ promotion of true knowledge/ 2 useless observances /practices/ to pass for meritorious services, 3 idleness may be regarded /accepted/ as constituting as fit /as no less/ a return as laborious service for pay alotted to the purchase of laborious service 4 sinecures as being no less conducive to instruction as well as to good government than the most efficient offices, 5 instruction as being no less effectually conveyed by the sight of antique walls and masquerade habits as /than/ by reading or speaking on the part of hearers, 6 and the efficiency of it as being proportioned not to the quality and quantity not of the information given /instruction afforded/ by them but of the money pocketed by them, and the ease enjoyed by them: anbd in a word /to sum up all in a few words/ whatsoever among the obstacles to virtue and learning one subservient to their separate and sinister interest, may be made to pass for causes.

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