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15 Feby 1813
Church II. Topics Ch 6. Declaration
10 § 1. Abstract fitness
Part 5. Persuasion
(a)?
When The force
of a mans intellectual
authority is as his
wisdom — of his coercive
do as his power.
But when power
is joined with folly
& wickedness deception the product
of coercion. Hence
the word forcibly
deceptions. - suggested
Note (a)?
In so far as When if the by intellectual the authority which
operates is of the intellectual kind, the force with which
it operates is naturally as the wisdom of the person
whose authority it is that operates. In so far as it is
of the coercive kind, it is necessarily as his power.
But power the most absolute may find itself and frequently
has found itself conjoined in the same person with
[+] as well as with
the most perfect disregard
for the [general]
interest of the subject
many over whom
the power is exercised.
the most consummate folly. Thus On this ground it is that where
to the where for the production of persuasion, force is
employed, deception may without hesitation be pronounced
the general result. Hence it is, that, in
a word, to the forcibly persuasive in speaking of the
a word, that by the idea of forcibly-persuasive process the above mentioned term forcibly-deceptions
was applied suggested, as if it were an interconvertible term, and without whic any immediate
perception of the difference.
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