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T\. 8 Ch 6.

Sect 4 Ch | | Cause and Obstacle

4.3 Virtue Universities

If perjury and suborn. be impeity these are the most impious of [...?]: others find[?] occasionally, these [...?]tantly.

These[?] enormities have not mere negligence and indifference for their cause: for their effect at least if not for their object, they have the establishment of a disposition of the most debasing and pernicious nature

It is the interest of every despot, that of those whom he holds under his yoke the understandings may be remain for ever in the /a/ state of the utmost imbecillity and depravation possible /of every man in power, who has nothing but his power to trust to as a security for the habits of obedience by which it is constituted, has nothing but his power to trust to but his power - it is his interest that of those over whom his dominion exercises itself/: that their notion of right and wrong being in a state of most perfect confusion, they may with the most abject and unreflecting and undiscriminating obsequiousness take for the measure of their obedience whatsoever is in pretence the opinion but in reality only the will, as determined by the sinister interest of their reulers that thus the self-same conduct shall be held for right or for wrong or for right according to the manner in which the interest of these rulers is affected by it: that thus, their attachment to their rulers being independent of the good or ill conduct of the good or ill desert of /on the part of/ those same /such th[...?]/ rulers, may on every occasion /at all times/ in despite of any the justest accusations secure to them the same effectual support.