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Fallacies Ch | | Cause

| | Universities 1. Virtue

| | 1. Virtue Universities

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It is not therefore for nothing and to no use that immorality is cultivated in this shape. In in They behold and find not only a mine of wealth, but a mine of honour /respect/, which if mens eyes were opn and their understandings /judgements/ unperverted, would be converted in to scorn and merited contempt. /evaporate and give place to contempt and abhorrence./

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By thus taking possession of the /raw and unformed/ mind and steeping it to the lips in perjury and whom /of the youth whose soul/ the ambition of his parents has delivered into their hands, [...?]ing it /him/ at the very moment of instruction in their riots[?] and baptizing him with the water and spirit of perjury, they afford to him to his parents to all his connections the strongest and most efficient interest in giving credit and support to their reputation for learning and virtue. A perjurer /Perjury/ so long as he stays /abides/ with them he is at any rate: but a perjurer in whose instance perjury is or is not accompanied with guilt and merited reproach according as the power of those suborners by whom it has been forced upon is or is not regarded as capable of changing its nature and converting guilt into innocence /washing away guilt/: if they

have

have this abstervive[?] power it is an innocent perjury: if they have it not a guilty one.