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Title: [14 Feb y 1813 + Church Ch.6]

Description: 14 Feb y 1813 +

Church Ch.6

8 Abstract

Part 5.

The forcibly deceptive process includes the

upon it .

Persuasion producible

by the free deceptive

process. without

coercion. Hell &

heaven the instruments

Without the aid of any temporal coercive authority,

by force borrowed from the religious sanction, it is not individual

power may suffice out of the power of the individual to produce persuasion by

what may be termed the free deceptive process freely deceptive exercise. or process

of free deception. In the hands of time is whence while zeal is strong and

knowledge is weak, for the production of persuasion by this process hell flames and heavenly joy, are instruments of

experienced potency.

Where coercion

is employed, it is

the forced deceptive

process

When coercive authority enters the field, and puts brings

its force into in action as above, the process which it employs

may be termed the process of forced deception or forcibly

deceptive or deceptitious process (a)

(a) Note in a separate page.

While the forcibly

deceptive process is carried

on freely deceptive

do is carried

on at the same

time by other hands

spite of coercion

indigenous persuasion

and its adoptive

following it breaks out.

And authority

is against all being

thus pitted against

authority, the

hater of insincerity

frequently

the coercive deception,

and takes

to the self deceptive

process.

When the forcibly-deceptitious process has been carried goes on by one set of hands

on, the freely deceptive process is by another set of

hands naturally and consciously carried on along in conjunction with it.

By the forcibly deceptitious process the production of a quantity

of adoptive persuasion on the subject and on the side

desired is as above, . but on the other hand, spite of

whatsoever force may have been applied by the coercive

authority for the suppression of it, indigenous persuasion on

the side opposite to the authoritative side will here and

there have broken out:- indigenous persuasion, by which

with a probability in some measure proportioned to the rectitude correctness

of such indigenous persuasion a quantity mass of adoptive

persuasion operating on the same side

will also have been produced. Here then will be authority

against authority: reason against reason: argument against

argument. Pressed between the forcibly-produced and the freely

produced arguments, the mind which in any way finds itself

called upon to make a declaration on the side expressed

by force, will be apt to feel a sort of pain proportioned

in its intensity to any laws which it may happen have happened to have

contracted for the virtue of sincerity, to any aversion hatred which it may

have happened to it to have contracted for the opposite vice. To For rid

rid ridding itself as far as

may be from this uneasiness,

it has will find but

one response, viz. in the

freely- deceptive process

the above described

in this case in respect

of the person by whom

it is employed distinguishable by the name of the self-deceptive process.

JB_005_215_001.xml

Title: [14 Feb y 1813 Church Ch. 6.]

Description: 14 Feb y 1813

Church Ch. 6.

2 p1.

Part 4.

In practice the

persuasion which

guides human conduct

particularly in religion is of a mixt

kind, - partly indigenous

in part adoptive.

In practice - in matters in general - and in

matters of religion in particular — the persuasion

by which human conduct is determined - the persuasion

upon which a man acts, is very frequently

— not to say most frequently - of the mixt kind: -

partly indigenous, partly adoptive.

Much time

saved by acting

on adoption belief

By acting on adoptive persuasion, in general most commonly

much time is saved! Be the subject what it may

suppose any a mans declaration of persuasion an opinion in print —

that declaration opinion the opinion of one whose judgment

as declared is regarded as a competent and apt guide, the ascertaining

it may be but a moments work. whereas

the forming in relation to that same subject an indigenous

opinion, even in a mind ever so well qualified for

the formation of it may be the work of hours or days

not to say months or years.

Note (a)

(a)

Even mathematics

adoptive the persuasion

a man is

often if not for the

most part guided

by. A mans refers

without scruple to a work of note

for a demonstration

all parts

of which are not

in his mind.

(a) Even on a mathematical subject — even in the mind

of the ablest mathematician - the judgments on which

he acts operates will in great part not to say for the most

part in some degree of the adoptive kind. On

the subject of this or that proposition he himself

(suppose) has formed an opinion of the indigenous kind.

But at the instant that he has need of it to build upon

the demonstration is not — if it be a long one is not in

all its parts — in his mind. Accordingly partly for his

own satisfaction, partly for that of his expected readers, he

makes reference to a plan some mathematical work of

be quoted — say to Newton - where the demonstration

is delivered at length.

JB_005_212_001.xml

Title: [1 Jan y 1812 Church Ch 6 II]

Description: 1 Jan y 1812

Church

Ch 6 II.

7 § 1.

Part III

Indigenous

(4) (2)

Here one of the

senses of the word

authority is employed.

Where the persuasion

is adoptive

it may be said to

have authority for

its ground.

Here may be seen on the occasion on which —

one of the senses in which — the word authority

is wont to be employed. In so far as it is of the adoptive

kind the persuasion may be said is said to be formed on the

ground of authority to have authority for its ground

Authority the ground

on which in the case

of every even the

most

judicious man

that ever lived, perhaps

in the majority.

of occasions during

his life, his

judgment is formed

Authority is the ground on which, in the instance

of every man, the most knowing and judicious that

ever lived not excepted, the judgments on which he

acts must on many occasions - perhaps on the greater

part of the occasions that present themselves to him

throughout the whole course of his life, be in a great

degree formed.

To exclude adoptive

persuasion altogether

is neither possible

nor desirable.

To exclude adoptive persuasion altogether - to

exclude altogether that sort of circumstantial evidence

which is composed of the supposed opinions of other

people - is neither possible nor desirable.

What is desirable, is,

that in proportion

to the importance

of each question

& the means of forming

an indigenous judgment

he should first apply

himself to form an

indigenous judgment,

or, at least keep the

door open to an appeal

from any adoptive

judgment he may form.

What is desirable is — that in the point proportion to the of

importance of each question and the means which

a man has in his hands for forming, in relation to

it a judgment or persuasion of the

indigenous kind, a judgment, to wit such an one

as to the purpose in question shall be sufficiently correct

and compliant — he shall be constant on each occasion

be mindful either to apply himself in the first instance

to form in relation to it a judgment or persuasion of the

indigenous kind, or at any rate keep the door open to an

appeal made from any adoptive judgment it may happen

to have to leave entertained,

to his own

indigenous judgment.