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14 Feb. 1813
Church II Topics Ch. 6.
5 §.1. Abstract
Part 5. Power over persuasion
Where
In the case of
anyEvery established mass of doctrine
the has a body
of authority in
its favour, which
begins with its
establishers & grows
as it rolls on,
like an avalanche.
Wheresoever on the subject in the field of religion a mass body of
persuasion, real and pretended together - in other words a
system of doctrine is established, it has by the supposition
a body mass of authority deposing and operating in its favour,
commencing with consisting in the first place of the authority -
the intellectual authority, implied in the exercise at least in the exercise of authority
of those by whom it was originally established:
an instrument the force of which, as age rolls after age
goes on accumulating, like that of an avalanche or
natural snowball, as down the gulph of time age
rolls after age.
☞ Now or further on add the independence of such persuasion on treaties
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