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De la Felicité Publique Vol.2. Ch.3. p.80
Now nothing is more adverse to the progress
of reason than those Schools where one
learns, not what is, but what another has
thought; where the Master stands in the
place of nature herself to his disciples,
and where the greatest efforts of application
are spent in endeavours to understand a man who
does not understand himself. II. 80, 81.
. II 81 In truth they (Books) arrogate to
themselves sometimes the same privileges as
their authors. They exercise a power, they
possess dominion in their turn, especially
when any of those privileged bodies, better
calculated adapted to preserve science than to exercise
it,
to the preservation of science than to it's exercise
introduces exercises a legislation into over the course
of study: when this literary legislation is upholden
by the civil; in short when incapacity
judges sits <add>1 in 3 judgement</add> in 2 dernier resort over Philosophy &
decrees that the limits it has at present has, it
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shall have for ever. But this monopoly can
not long continue; and in the sciences for it is [the case] in the
as in politicks, the underhand sciences as well as in commerce, that the licensed dealer
, to the regular. must <add>& will gather a great part of his knowledge from</add>
interlopers.
It. I. 204
For my part (says an a most agreeable & profound
philosopher) I know not, whether
it be because hypocrisy is the vice for which of all
others for which I have feel the most antipathy,
but I always feel a repugnance reluctance in carry supporting
it carried to a certain length:
but I can never can
bring myself to conceive the possibility
of it's being carried
to a certain length
without a sensible
repugnance.
the part +
+ drudgery
of a hypocrite seems to me a drudgery at
once so difficult & so painful, that it is
to my eyes the very peak of artifice and patience
to be able to play it succeed in it for any length
of time ] [with success]
There is an common
error runs through we are all very apt
to run into in our perseverance
endeavours to account
for mens conduct.
We should
Let us beware we
allow not too much to the head - at the
expence of the heart
We are apt to attribute
too much
to the head, and too
little to the heart.
If we men have some
[talents for] knack of deceiving facilities for putting deceit on, others, how
much stronger have they not at deceiving
many more have they not for putting it on
ourselves themselves ? It is perhaps therefore for want perhaps of
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sufficiently reflecting stu studying
upon the heart of man, this
we believe so readily are such ready believers in hypocrisy. All those
who have carefully observed the demands power of that
interest exercises over our opinions, must
have found reason to persuade to satisfy themselves that
tendency it is the effect of it's very successes is to put an end to it's
dominion. Men set out with affecting,
mala fide, certain a set of practises & opinions, & when
that has put under of the deceipt they have found <add>the means to</add> them into the way of
playing a part , making a figure in the world, of lording it over of being
their neighbours & of enjoying acquiring riches and
credit at their expence, they begin to put more
faith in it: little by little interest gained
it's point in strengthening establishing in their own conceit the foundations
of their authority. It has been long observed
that a Gamester sets out a commences dupe, and ends finishes a
knave; The reverse is the case in
of opinion: men set out knaves, & finish
dupes.
A man is a knave
at the outset, &
a dupe at the conclusion.
One shall often Tis no uncommon sight to see a Magistrate
in passing from one bench to another
change his principles with his Court.
At first, his probity pride in his integrity or rather the opinion
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he entertains of himself
his own good opinion
of himself
is finds itself restless and uneasy ill at ease:
It then calls in sophistry to it's assistance:
out of sorts
but soon imposed upon plied upon by it's own artifices,
it has nothing finds no longer any thing left to combat, &
[the man's] folly] weakness heals the wounds of [made
in his] conscience. Tis this that in the
instance of the Clergy it has sometimes happen'd
that men altogether worldly-minded
who have made their way to preferment
by favour or intrigue, become at length
party leaders, and constrained to make frequent
sacrifices of their pleasures to their ambition,
have concluded with believing themselves a
part of what they have been employed in inculcating
into others. This perhaps was the
case of Constantine.
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