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Fallacies Ch. | | Authority worshipper

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4. Churchman's Sinister interest

In Ireland, of the people from whom the money is extorted that is applied in payment of this mixture of useless offices and sinecures and useless offices nine-tenths (+) refuse to listen to such instruction or regarding it as worse than useless, charging themselves with the expence of other /a different system of/ instruction on the main[?] subject such as in their eyes appears useful and conducive to its prfessed purpose: of which nine tenths /in the eyes of [...?]/ about seven eighths (||) the effect of such instruction if listened to would be not merely /simply/ pernicious, but instead if felicitous[?] conducive to infinite and eternal misery, inasmuch that in their eyes whatever part of this money is bestowed in sinecures is bestowed in paying men for doing mischief.

(+) (||) Correct the numbers.