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14 Feby 1813
Church Ch. 6.
2 p1.
Part 4.
In practice the
persuasion which
guides human conduct
particularly in religion is partly of a mixt
kind, - partly indigenous
in part adoptive.
In practice - in matters of in general - and in
matters of religion in particular — the persuasion upon
by which human conduct is determined - the persuasion
upon which a man acts, is very frequently
— not to say most frequently - of the mixt kind: -
partly indigenous, partly adoptive.
Time Much time
saved by acting
on adoption belief
By adop acting on adoptive persuasion, in general most commonly
much time is saved! Be the subject what it may
suppose any a mans declaration of persuasion an opinion in print —
that declaration opinion the opinion of one whose d judgment
as declared is regarded as a competent and apt guide, the ascertaining
it may be but a moments work. whereas
the forming in relation to that same subject an indigenous
opinion, even in a mind ever so well qualified for
the formation of it may be the work of hours or days
not to say months or years.
Note (a)
(a)
Even mathematics
adoptive the persuasion
a man is
often if not for the
most part guided
by. A mans refers
without scruple to a work of note
for a demonstration
all parts
of which are not
in his mind.
(a) Even on a mathematical subject — even in the mind
of the ablest mathematician - the judgments on which
he acts operates will in great part not to say for the most
part in some degree of the adoptive kind. On a former
occasion the subject of this or that proposition he himself
(suppose) has formed an opinion of the indigenous kind.
But at the instant that he has need of it to build upon
the demonstration is not — if it be a long one is not in
all its parts — in his mind. Accordingly partly for his
own satisfaction, partly for that of his expected readers, he
makes reference to the a plan some mathematical work of
be quoted — say to Newton - where the demonstration
is delivered at length.
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