15 Feb y 1813

Church II. Topics Ch 6. Declaration

10 § 1. Abstract fitness

Part 5. Persuasion

(a)?

The force

of a mans intellectual

authority is as his

wisdom — of his coercive

d o as his power.

But when power

is joined with folly

& wickedness deception the product

of coercion. Hence

the word forcibly

deceptions. - suggested

Note (a)?

In so far as When the authority which

operates is of the intellectual kind, the force with which

it operates is naturally as the wisdom of the person

whose authority it is that operates. In so far as it is

of the coercive kind, it is necessarily as his power.

But power the most absolute may find itself and frequently

has found itself conjoined in the same person with [+] as well as with

the most perfect disregard

for the [general]

interest of the subject

many over whom

the power is exercised.

the most consummate folly. Thus On this ground it is that

where for the production of persuasion, force is

employed, deception may without hesitation be pronounced

the general result. Hence it is, that, in

a word, to the forcibly persuasive in speaking of the

a word, that by the idea of forcibly-persuasive process the above mentioned term forcibly-deceptions

was suggested, as if it were an interconvertible term, and without any immediate

perception of the difference.