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14 Feby 1813 Church II Topics
Ch 6.
7 §.1. Abstract
Part 5. Power over

Coercive authority
smooths all
difficulty &
manufactures
with ease, not
only declarations
of persuasion but
persuasion itself.
By coerv coercive authority wheresoever it has been
pleased to enter upon the field and display its exert its force, all
these difficulties have been overcome - all delay short much
shortened at least, all uncertainty excluded. For manufacturing
not merely declaration of persuasion — for that is
a commodity which with such an instrument may be
manufactured at once in the twinkling of an eye and in any quantity — but
for manufacturing persuasion itself, coercive authority has
an experienced and never failing . process

The description as
concise as the operation
prompt.
The operation is not more prompt than the description
if it is concise.

By hope or fear get
any declarations
of credence
(false or true no
matter quantum. suff.
(false or true no
matter as the falsity
cannot be proved (a)
By the known and approved means - by fear - by
hope - by both together, = procure in sufficient quantity,
a body of declaration of persuasion. Whether To the purpose here in question, whether This declaration
[whether it] be true of false, matters not of a straw. By those
by whom it is made, it is of course certified for true: and
be it ever so false, its falsity is more than by any human
being can by any direct evidence prove to be true. (a)
(a) Note to say - viz.
in the instance of any
particular individual:
in general: witness purposes
.
|(a) c.c. in the
case of any one man.

Number and value of <add> declared persuasion</add> together, proportioned to the quantity mass
of declaration of opinion you have thus obtained collected, is the
weight of authority intellectual authority - which you have obtained. By In this weight
of authority you possess an instrument by which, as
surely as by a well constructed piece of machi flour mill
flour is produced, you produce a quantity correspondent of persuasion
of the adoptive kind. Your declar declarations of persuasion
may have been every one of them false: Your
the product of them in the shape of adoptive persuasion
will not be the less sincere.
With By mass
of declarations
you have a power
by which in proportion
to no & weight of the
authorities, belief
is produced as
certainly as flower
grain becomes flour
in a mill.

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Date_1	1813-02-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	226	Info in main headings field	church
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1809
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
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