104_178.xml

Title: [1811 July 9 ' 4 Ins or Eitherside]

Description: 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 -

104_184.xml

Title: [July 1810 +. ' 4. B + 8 Note]

Description: July 1810 +. '

4. B + 8 Note

Fallacies B. 2. P\T

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T\: 8. Ch 6 Sect 4 Ch | | Cause and Obstacle

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4.3 Virtue Universities

 10 Aug. 1819. Is not this superseded by "Swear Not"?

In regard to oaths and perjury the matter stands as follows

[...?]. Statute. Tet. II. p 4

On the registration of his name /On his matriculation/ in the University booter[?] Previously to his matriculation (this is the name given to the operation of entering and[?] p[...?] his name upon the University Register Book. "As many (says the Statute) as apply to have their names entered upon the University Register Book (Matriculation) if they have attained the age of sixteen (which is almost always the case) let them subscribe to the Articles of Faith and Religion (the 39 Articles): and for the acknowledgement of the Royal supremacy as also for fidelity towards the University, and keeping observance of its Statutes, Privileges and Customs, according to the form beheld[?] to /to this time/ is use, let them take their corporal oaths." There follows partial exemptions for two lower degrees in the scale of age.

Respecting the observance of the University laws as above, so far as concerns the description of the course of conduct promised to be observed is no additional form given, but the purport of it if not the very [...?] may be sufficiently collected from what is above. [...?] yet, of the ceremonial part, [...?] of the combination of the words by the pronunciation of which and the gestures by the exhibition of which, the power of the Almighty is supposed to be pledged for to the punishing of transgressions which otherwise he would not have punished, or in some manner in which he would not otherwise have punished them.

104_192.xml

Title: [1810 July 23 + ' 4.1 6 Fallacies]

Description: 1810 July 23 + '

4.1 6

Fallacies B. 2 P\T

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T\. 8 Ch 6.

Sect 4 Ch | | Cause and Obstacle

4.3 Virtue Universities

If perjury and suborn. be impeity these are the most impious of [...?]: others find[?] occasionally, these [...?]tantly.

These[?] enormities have not mere negligence and indifference for their cause: for their effect at least if not for their object, they have the establishment of a disposition of the most debasing and pernicious nature

It is the interest of every despot, that of those whom he holds under his yoke the understandings may be remain for ever in the /a/ state of the utmost imbecillity and depravation possible /of every man in power, who has nothing but his power to trust to as a security for the habits of obedience by which it is constituted, has nothing but his power to trust to but his power - it is his interest that of those over whom his dominion exercises itself/: that their notion of right and wrong being in a state of most perfect confusion, they may with the most abject and unreflecting and undiscriminating obsequiousness take for the measure of their obedience whatsoever is in pretence the opinion but in reality only the will, as determined by the sinister interest of their reulers that thus the self-same conduct shall be held for right or for wrong or for right according to the manner in which the interest of these rulers is affected by it: that thus, their attachment to their rulers being independent of the good or ill conduct of the good or ill desert of /on the part of/ those same /such th[...?]/ rulers, may on every occasion /at all times/ in despite of any the justest accusations secure to them the same effectual support.