JB_005_232_001.xml

Title: [15 Feb y 1813 Church II. Topics Ch]

Description: 15 Feb y 1813

Church II. Topics Ch 6. Declaration

10 § 1. Abstract fitness

Part 5. Persuasion

(a)?

The force

of a mans intellectual

authority is as his

wisdom — of his coercive

d o as his power.

But when power

is joined with folly

& wickedness deception the product

of coercion. Hence

the word forcibly

deceptions. - suggested

Note (a)?

In so far as When the authority which

operates is of the intellectual kind, the force with which

it operates is naturally as the wisdom of the person

whose authority it is that operates. In so far as it is

of the coercive kind, it is necessarily as his power.

But power the most absolute may find itself and frequently

has found itself conjoined in the same person with [+] as well as with

the most perfect disregard

for the [general]

interest of the subject

many over whom

the power is exercised.

the most consummate folly. Thus On this ground it is that

where for the production of persuasion, force is

employed, deception may without hesitation be pronounced

the general result. Hence it is, that, in

a word, to the forcibly persuasive in speaking of the

a word, that by the idea of forcibly-persuasive process the above mentioned term forcibly-deceptions

was suggested, as if it were an interconvertible term, and without any immediate

perception of the difference.

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_236_001.xml

Title: [16 Feb y 1813 + Church II Topics Ch]

Description: 16 Feb y 1813 +

Church II Topics Ch.6. declaration

14 §1. Abstract

Part 5. Power over

(1)

By what has been

said it has been

shown that when

a body of authority

has been collected

(no matter how) credence

may be obtained

not only to unintelligible

but to

what did a man

suffer himself to

examine it would

clearly appear

false.

By From what has been said, it has been it is rendered, it is supposed

sufficiently tolerably evident, how it is that, [when, a com

no matter by what means, a competent body of authority —

intellectual authority - has been collected,] credence

may be obtained for any one imaginable proposition

as well as any other: - obtained not only

for a proposition, of to the terms of which [+]

[+] as in the case of an

unknown language

[+] as in the case of

a point-blank contradiction

in terms

the person individual proposed believer to be persuaded

neither does answer or so much as concerns

himself able to to annex any meaning, but to a proposition,

the falsity of which, were he to permitt suffer himself

to attend to it with a view the purpose of forming an indigenous

persuasion concerning in relation to it, would have been impressed upon

his mind by the strongest and clearest perception

possible:—

The

A process which is

in part forcibly

decepti ous may be

in another part, freely

deceptious - In the

first place coercion

is employed in the

second place intellectual

authority

or of persuasion

to which, real authority

is not necessary.

that in this case the same process which in

one part viz. the first former part of its operation is forcibly deceptious, may

in another part, viz the latter part of its operation, be

freely deceptious. In the first former part coercive authority

is the instrument that operates: and the product

is declaration of persuasion: in the latter part

the instrument that operates is intellectual authority;

that is composed of the such appearance or semblance of that persuasion

the declaration of which hath, as above,

been produced.

[+] to the production

of which no not any

real persuasion of

either kind, indigenous

or adoptive is necessary;

necessary to it? - no,

nor yet compatible with

it in so far as force

is the instrument by

which the declaraton

has been produced.