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July 1810 + ' 2. + O 22 Fallacies
July 1810 + '

2. + O 22

Fallacies B 2. P\TtT\ 8 Ch 6 Sect 4 Ch.

| | Cause & Obstacle

| | Universities 1 Virtue

1. Virtue Univerities

So at /which/ the Bar, the grand insincerity - [...?] - [...?] they were thus no app[...?]tions to the evils[?] of falsehood [...?] ch[...?] from the [...?] they [...?] re[...?]d as to [...?] an opiate for their Consciences: thus Johnson who practising the arts of insincerity took law fees bit in money but in kind - in [...?] and nights lodgings was recruited to immorality[?] by the mediation of Usage.

S[...?] and Park at[?] shew how slight and frugel[?] the relation between Religion[?] in one part Truth and Justice in the other: how [...?] by a due attention to the cred[...?] agenda and an agenda may be left to the avowed arbitration of sinister interest

After their migration /ascension/ from the falshood and absurdity - school they find for this impregnation, birth in their own instance and in that of the body of the people who have been foxed and fascinated[?] by the same arts, a still higher use in high offices and upon benches.

In /By/ the acquiescence and even respect with which they have been accustomed to regard the sinecures of which in Oxford and Canbridge every thing /all /const[...?]ted/ situations/ byt the few Tutorships are composed they learn [...?] /imbibe[?]/ /accustom themselves/ to regard some of them in the character of politicians with that eye of partiality and affection the practice of that species of fraud which consists in obtaining public money for service not intended to be rendered with that eye of partiality and affection which prepares them for the pursuit /pursuing/ of the still better endowed sinecures which /afforded by/ the higher parts /situations/ of the establishment:

/and still by the practice of insincerity /the arts/ applied to ulterior obects of the same arts the arts of insincerity working on higher ground.
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    | | Universities 1. Virtue

    | | 1. Virtue Universities

    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.