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Fallacies Ch. | | Authority worshipper

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4. Churchman's Sinister interest

5. That it is not only consistent with but requiste to good government to extort from poor /with money extorted from poor/ as well as rich for the purpose not merely /for the purpose/ of paying men for doing nothing, but also for the purpsoe of paying men for doing euther nothing at all or that the doing of which requires little labour and all[?] talent, several times as much as annexed to those most efficient laborious and important offices for the due or any thing like due discharge of which the highest measure of talent is as ever thus[?] requiste: and that in dispute of the known disapprobation of nine-tenths of the people who are thus treated.