10 Aug. 1811

Fallacies 2 Ch. | | Lawyers & Churchmen

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There are receipts[?] and in the instance of some /many/, constitutions sure ans[?] for the believing of any thing how monstrous so ever the absurdity of it: hope and fear, reward and punishment - eventual expectation of extacy and agony both screwed up to the highest pitch as well in the scale of duration as in that of intensity are instruments by the force of which the throats of the many may be made and beyond doubt are actually are made to gulp down pills /bolures[?]/ of the utmost conceivable degree of intellectual nanserceness[?].

Exposed to the action of such instruments, the judgement is in the great bulk of human constitutions absolutely under /at/ the command of the affections. Were not this the case, or at least in a very extensive degree /to a great extent/ understood to be the case, faith, that is belief persuasion as applied to objects of a particular class would never have been brought to view as we see it /it is seen/ brought to view in the character of a duty - and that a duty on the fulfilment or non fulfilment of which depends the difference between infinite felicity and infinite misery both infinite, as above.