14 Feb y 1813 §.1 Part 5. B +

Church Ch.6.

11 §.1. Abstract

Part 5. Power over

1 Forcibly deceptive process needful the absurdity of the persuasion ( 2)

2. Thence employment of its of that absurdity in the eyes of the employers

3. declared persuasion of the as the

From the above

view of the deception

process these conclusions

may be

drawn.

From this view of the view thus given of the nature

and power of the forcibly deceptive process the following

conclusions of a nature more or less intimately connected closely applying to

with many it should since be deduced.

1. Declarations of

credence - palpably

false may be produced

on any

subject.

1. By means of this process, on any subject whatsoever

declarations of persuasion declarations to any degree palpably absurd

palpably false as well

as to any degree absurd may be produced.

Accordingly it is by this principle, whether the particular

mode in which it was applied have or have has or has not

been handed down by history, that in the case of the

several religions the falsity of which is by the religionists

of the religion of Jesus, as well as by non-religionists

in general recognized, the adherence to their several religions

in the case of the immense multitudes that are found adhering to them must have been produced.

Th us must have

been produced the

general credence

in religions now

acknowledged to be

false.