21 Jan y. 1810

Parl y. Reform

Ch.2. Influence

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Objector. Do you admitt then that in the case in question a man's conduct may with propriety be determined by authority? - by intellectual authority, according to the explanation you have just been giving of it?

Author. Most assuredly I do: and that by its being determined in this manner, not that I recommend this as the universally preferable mode the trust in question is not broken, nor the design of the institution counteracted.

Objector. But how in this case is the description which you have above been giving /above given by you/ of the obligation attached to the trust conformed to? how in such case can it be said with true[?] that it is by the trustee's own understanding that any view of the matter has been taken?

Author. {The conformity, you will see, is beyond dispute.} Yes: even in this case you will find that by the trustee's own understanding a view of the matter has even[?] in this case been taken: and that it is by that view, and the report made in consequence by his

understanding that his will is determined.

For is it not the work of understanding to form and pronounce a judgment on the strength of another man's? not to speak of that other judgment which to the one in question in many cases is so necessary an accompaniment viz. on the probity of the moral part of the same person's[?] frame[?] /mind/, and not merely of the general strength of the understanding but of the particular strength as applied to the particular subject in hand.