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15 Feby 1813 Church II Topics Ch.6.
9 §.1. Abstract fitness
Part 5. Power over

Authority to
this purpose
(1) special & (2) general.
1. Special when its
effect is owing
to the character
of the person by
whom
2 General When general
the persuasion is operates as the
rest of the persons
in whom supposed persuasion
produced the is
supposed to exist.
The lowest special
authority is
where the man
is but one degree
above the an
average man. -
The highest is so
great as to
outweigh any
general do. Locke
would with an
Englishman have
more weight on a
point of metaphysics
than all
the Chinese empire.
Authority — intellectual authority — may to this purpose be distinguished into
special and general. Special it may be termed, in
so far as it by the consideration of the particular
character of the person whose persuasion is in by whose
understanding the influence is exercised that the effect
is produced on [the mind of] the person on whose understanding
the influence is exercised. In so far
as it is but general the persuasive force with which it
operates will be in is susceptible of mathematical measurement:
it is in the exact ratio of the numbers
of the persons by the consideration of whose persuasion,
indigenous or adoptive, the adoptive persuasion in question is
produced. By <add>In the case</add> Of special authority the lowest degree of
persuasive force exerted with which it operates is that which is stands next above
the force degree of persuasive force with which, in the way of general authority the authority
of an individual unknown and taken at random
would operate operates. The highest degree is so great high that
no as assignable mass of auth general authority can be found assigned
so great, as that, in an intelligent mind, a single
atom of special authority may not be powerful
enough to surmount it. To this case among others
applies the adage - pendere non numero. In the
mind of a literally educated inhabitant of Great Britain,
on a question belonging to the department of metaphysics,
as it is so commonly called — of logic, as it ought rather
to be called — the special authority of Mr Locke will suffice
to outweigh the general authority of the whole Chinese
empire: to which may be added all the other oriental ones.

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