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14 Feb. 1813 Church II. TopicsCh. 6.
4 §1 Abstract
Part 5 Power over

- The exercise

Intellectual
Authority — a
convenient & efficacious
instrument in
the field of religion as
1. it requires no
conception of the subject.
2. no exertion -
3 and is universally
applicable
The advantage
is lessened by
a difficulty occurs
by the collision of
auth opposite
authority but
this is overcome
by exclusion
& agglutination
as above
[Authority - intellectual authority] Throughout the whole
field of religion - and but more particularly throughout all that
part of it which is occupied by established religion, authority -
intellectual authority - is an instrument which
being handled with peculiar [degree of] facility operates
with peculiar force. A. It requires not 1. Be the subject what it may, this instrument so we have just
been seeing requires not any the slightest conception of
or regard to it. 2. when the authority looked all of it in one the application of it requires not any
the smallest slightest degree of exertion: 3. being alike applicable
to all subjects, it is naturally resorted to on all occasions
[Where In the case, which, in the especially in the free and <add>at least</add> unenclosed
part of the field of religion is it must be confessed a
frequent one authorities might be found, militating on
both sides, in this case, if against every other such authority
were to be made weighed, the advantage of any
which would be found attendant in the use of this instrument
would be comparatively inconsiderable. But by the
help of the so naturally conjunct powers of exclusion and agglutination
above mentioned, this difficulty is with the utmost every desirable degree
of facility overcome: against all authorities every authority, as fast so soon
as they it is appear or are suspected are found or expected to depose in opposition
to the desired persuasion, the door of the mind is shut:
to all authorities every authority so soon as they it is are found or expected
to depose in favour of that same persuasion, the door
of the mind is thrown open, and the hooks arms with which
the attention is provided fastened clasped upon them. it.

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Date_1	1813-02-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	223	Info in main headings field	church
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1809
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	2640
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