24 Dec r 1814

Jug. Util

13

II. Sub Rev

7

Heresy Heterodoxy

The more absurd the opinion, the more the number of opponents which it would be liable to find and the warmer the opposition on the part of evil[?] it would be apt to find. But the hotter the opposition the warmer would be the resentment kindled by that opposition: and the hotter the resentment the sharper the suffering which in the name of punishment it would, in so far as it were in its power, inflict for the gratification of that passion: and thence it was that the more absurd the opinion the graver the imputation cast on him whose offence consisted in the not embracing it.

12.

The more absurd the opinion the graver is the offence imputed to him who refuted it. For, the more absurd the opinion the more and warmer the opponents: the warmer the opposition the warmer the resentment kindled by it: the warmer that resentment the greater the suffering which it would seek to inflict. To [...?] a [...?] for such infliction, the graver therefore the offence imputed.