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

Description: 1810 July 23 + '

4.1 6

Fallacies B. 2 P\T

t

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.

104_194.xml

Title: [1 June 1811 18 Fallacies Ch | | Cause]

Description: 1 June 1811 18

Fallacies Ch | | Cause & Obstacle

Universities

Virtue

Every mention of that body being thus steeped to the lips in habitual perjury /the filth/ - in a habit by /practice to/ which, as he has been taught to believe, wrath and punishment at the hands of God, and to his own knowledge /within his own habitual obedience/, contempt and punishment at the hands of human authority /human law as well as public opinion/ stands annnext, whither shall he /his afflicted /ap[...?]ted/ conscience/ fly for relief? One source of relief and an abuse he sees before him: and it consists in that abject obsequiousness to the will which cloathed /disguises/ itself into a prstrate veneration for the wisdom and probity of his reverend superiors, coupled /accompanied/ with a correspondingly profound /deep/ sense of his own unworthiness - of the utter unfitness of his own understanding for the guidance of his own conduct.

Thus as a man's only reason against that self-abhorence which in susceptible minds is the result of conscious guilt in a /consists /consisting/ in a state of/ blind confidence /submission/ /abject and unresisting slavery,/ reposed in the authors of that very guilt, the /one/ consequence is on the part of these protestant priests a tyranny of exactly the same sort as that with the exercise of which they cease not to reproach the priests of that Catholic church /that Catholic priesthood/ to whose yoke they have contrived to substitute their own they have so managaed matters that theoir own has been substituted.

104_196.xml

Title: [23 July 1810 20 Fallacies Ch | |]

Description: 23 July 1810 20

Fallacies Ch | | Cause

| | Universities 1. Virtue

| | 1. Virtue Universities

2

It is not therefore for nothing and to no use that immorality is cultivated in this shape. In in They behold and find not only a mine of wealth, but a mine of honour /respect/, which if mens eyes were opn and their understandings /judgements/ unperverted, would be converted in to scorn and merited contempt. /evaporate and give place to contempt and abhorrence./

1

By thus taking possession of the /raw and unformed/ mind and steeping it to the lips in perjury and whom /of the youth whose soul/ the ambition of his parents has delivered into their hands, [...?]ing it /him/ at the very moment of instruction in their riots[?] and baptizing him with the water and spirit of perjury, they afford to him to his parents to all his connections the strongest and most efficient interest in giving credit and support to their reputation for learning and virtue. A perjurer /Perjury/ so long as he stays /abides/ with them he is at any rate: but a perjurer in whose instance perjury is or is not accompanied with guilt and merited reproach according as the power of those suborners by whom it has been forced upon is or is not regarded as capable of changing its nature and converting guilt into innocence /washing away guilt/: if they

have

have this abstervive[?] power it is an innocent perjury: if they have it not a guilty one.