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2 Church III

employment of such methods measures neither well-being
nor so much as being could be secured to
either. What is done in that view for the
accomplishment of these ends must be done
by coercive power: for without this the experience
of all ages and the very nature of man shows
that the accomplishment of them is to be impossible.
nor does the the nature of things admitts of no admitt of any succedaneum.

2
Arguments against
an establishment for
religious instruction The propagation culture <add>teaching</add> of theology and theological
morality stands not upon any such
necessary ground.

1. Instruction is naturally
proportioned to
demand: which is not
less likely to be kept up
in this line than in
others 1. This business is with respect to the end
a business of instruction merely: whatever whatsoever
of coercion is found mixed with it
in any existing establishment being nothing but
a means well or ill chosen with respect to that
end: of this instruction the only original
source is to be found in certain books:
and these books are accessible to every one.

Without the assistance of rewards collected by as
coercive methods every thing that can operate as a reward must ultimately be by <add> coercive process</add> instruction will in every time
be produced by demand: and in this line of all

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all others there seems no danger of any want
of demand: the business art of compassing infinite
happiness and avoiding infinite misery
is an art too highly interesting and too universally
interesting to be in any danger of being
treated regarded with neglect. (a)]
2 (a)
It is not true that the
force of the passions take more against religion
than for it.
It is a common complaint with
the ministers and teachers of religion that they
have nothing but reason on in their side favour, and that all the
strength of the passions militates against them.
[+] [+] The complaint has as less
little foundation in their
mouths as than it would
have in those of lottery-
office-keepers.
No complaint can be much worse grounded: the great strength
of the strongest passions hope and fear militates on their side:
It is not true that
the force of the natural
properties which
impel men to seek
instruction in this
line are of the
strongest kind
that hope which has for its object the greatest most
good exquisite enjoyments: that fear which has for its object the most
intolerable tremendous evil miseries: whatever the object
wants in point of propinquity and apparent
certainty is amply made up in apparent promised magnitude.
Religion therefore independent of whatever
hold it has upon reason by its truth
would must by the constitution of human nature have
the strongest hold upon the passions though it
were false: the illusion were it such would
require no common force of reason to dispell
it. Promises of extraordinary and supernatural
experiences good or evil have such attraction for the bulk

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