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Fallacies Authority worshipper

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. 5. Prevalenve Causes

To J. C. Mind the transportation[?]

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Of such a state of things one necessary consequence is - that, excepting /with the exception of/ those in whose instance by anti-constitutional dependence whatsoever intellectual qualifications this possess are reduced so much worse than useless, the body /House/ is composed of a set of men the furniture of whose minds is /consists/ of a compound /collection/ of jarring prejudices pushed out at and for each occasion out of such of the current prejudices as on that occasion present themselves as most favourable to their interests - to the species of interests to which it has happened to be brought into action /operation/ by the [...?] of the day.

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Thus while a few only are in any degree of dependence on the people whose fate is in their hands, even these few are in a state of more efficient dependence on the set of men who to the purpose of good government and the acknowledged purposes of the [...?] /existing/ [...?]bution should be dependent upon them, while as towards the [...?] set of men the dependence of the rest of altogether efficient and compleat.

Between the possessers /holders/ /tenants/ of power /in power/ in possession and the holders of the same power or appropriate active talents are decided: of those who having nothing to sell but their votes are not worth purchasing at such price as men have to give - if walking or willing[?] bodies without minds are compared with few or no exception all who have any pretense to the promise[?] of probity and independence.