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1811 July 9 ' 4 Ins or Eitherside
1811 July 9 '

4 Ins or Eitherside

Rudiments Ch. | | Causes & Obstacles

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4.3. Virtue - Universality

1. [...?]ions. 2. 3. [...?] [...?] [...?] 4. Province independent on learning. 5. In prizes, useful topics studiously avoided 6. Legislative improvement [...?]. 7. Peotry & declamation on common places encouraged 8. Installations, an adulation contest.

' 4. Example 3\T dT\ - Virtue and learning - English Universities, the cause [...?] emasculated - mental Gecrucles[?].

Without knowing them a man might make sure that a set of propagtions drawn up A\T oT\ 1564 would contain every thing discomfort[?] to head and heart - a[?] looseness membership[?] of interpolation and by every look this anticipation would be confirmed: [Sentence in Greek]

Then it is for preferment-[...?] and acquaintance thinking, that [...?] are sat to our English University: for learning [...?] Section.

Every Test is a reward for insincerity: punishment for sincerity.

transgression - being undiscernable.

It is prodcues no insincerity so produces nothing [...?] is of no use: for ny such assterions produced by such motives real opinion can not be changed.

(as of succesful insincerity no evidence injustice becomes a necessary consequence)

University

[...?] /furniture/ of their minds a fascicular[?] of fallacies.

Faith Scripture[...?] means - not credulity but attachment. By Water bodily contam[...?] may be worked[?] away, but by no water - no, never by any spirit - will /now[?] any/ mental contamination be thus expelled.

Like habitual d[...?]tends habitual perjuries fly to vacuity of thought for relief.

It is the depravity, thus rooted in the cradle of instruction that makes every endeavour to serve the country and master /mankind/ in its most impertient interests such uphill work: it is all against the grain.

It is in these schools of legislation that men learn that the life of the subject, instead of being decided upon by the cognisible letter of the law, ought to reason for ever looked up in the within[?] the in[...?]ssible receptacle that continues the unrecognisable and arbitarily variable, will and pleasure of the Judge.

thus trained up in that sort of principle, under which /which knows no violence/ nothing is virtue but obsequiousness, nothing vice but sincerity and independence.

In this [...?]sary/ /seminary/ [...?] is bred /reared/ /[...?] the Judge, who &c

- the member of Parliament, who &c -
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