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7 13 Intolerance Cause Church Form

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True practical
ground of importance
in
the questions relative
to the trouble
of
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Origin of the
Propensity to
adhere to the least
probable side
of every question
in Divinity
its origin
Yet further This, like every other species of merit will
rise not only with the rarity but with the difficulty
of it. But the more improbable a proposition appears
in itself the greater the difficulty of believing it upon
the ground of any external evidence. Hence It is in this way that a religious
tract a proposition relative to religion finds
naturally enough a degree of favour in proportion to its
improbability: and if that improbability rises to
the pitch of utter absurdity, and what, were religious
ideas out of the question would without
hesitation be pronounced absolute impossibility, so
much the better: the merit instead of sinking altogether,
rises to the highest pitch conceivable.

In this conflict [+] between common sense reason and prejudice,
[+] between the will and
the understanding and
the will
the victory is not to be gained by the latter without
a struggle more or less violent nor with
in a temper of any degree of sensibility without
a proportionable degree of uneasiness. The uneasiness
is naturally augmented by contradiction, as
with every thing that tends to place the arguments
on the obnoxious side in a stronger point of view.
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Which propensity gives birth to
is productive of
uneasiness
Not only Every thin argument that advanced by those on the
opposite side in support of their cause, but their the
very

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	13-15
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	068	Info in main headings field	church
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f7 / f8 / f9 / f10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	benjamin constant
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Notes public		ID Number	2485
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