date

14 Feb y 1813 + Church Ch.6
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.
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