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23 July 1810 21 Fallacies Ch | |
23 July 1810 21

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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.

So long as this habit /During the continuance and in virtue/ of blind confidence and obsequieousness they enjoy over and in relation to the laws of morality a sort of dispecsing power: by arts similar to those practiced by the Jesuits theu acquire and retain a species of power similar to that which was acquired and so long retained by the order of Jesuits.
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    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./

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    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

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    If sincerity be a virtue - if sincerity be not only /itself/ a virtue, but the basis of all the rest - if in one sense /in its effects/ all justice depends on truth, - if in another sense /the mind of him whose judgement or action is in question/, all justice depends upon the regard paid to truth - if this be admitted, it will then (such in that seat /those seats/ of supposed /or at least/ virtue is the state of antient and still continued practice, that if in other respects an honest and worthy man be to be found in the elder of the two English /an English/ Universities, it must be not because, but notwithstanding, he is a Member of it.

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