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16 Feby 1813 Church II <unclear>Topics Ch.6</unclear>

A man being thus
thus urged to this
freely deceptive
process, as it is
by exertion his end
is to be attained, the
more exertion, the
more merit. But
the more fal clearly
false a proposition
is the more exertion
is
necessary to
produce belief in it.
an
By the conjunct mass of punishment and reward considered
as being so thus about to be applied, an interest a mass of interest has been created
[by which a man is has been led] <add>or a mass of force,</add> a matter by which
he is urged to do what dep whatsoever depends upon
his will towards rendering his judgment to embrace
the persuasion proposed. Towards this end what is in his in the
power power of his will to do is to set to work to employ his exertion in the way <add>and to apply in and to his understanding and judgment</add> the above mentioned process
above described under the appellation of the freely-deceptive
process. But sure it is by such that the
object, if it at all be attained will be attained, hence in the case of [+]
in so far as reward
is the species of inducement
looked to
the more
strenuous the exertion will be the greater or more certain
will the prospect of reward naturally appears to be. The pro
In so far as depends upon exertion, the probability of
success being as the magnitude or intensity of the exertion,
hence the idea of merit will attach itself not only to
the success but to the exertion on upon which that success
depends. But supposing success attained — attained
by exertion, the more plainly the falsity of the
proposition is - in other words the greater the degree in which
to an eye by which it were permitted to be viewed will
to the purpose of forming an indigenous persuasion in
relation to it, the falsity of it would be made manifest,
the greater will naturally have been necessary to be employed, and
employed accordingly in the production of it.

The more palpably
absurd any proposition
the more exertion necessary
to believe it. Merit
& reward being as the
the exertion are as the
absurdity
The more palpably absurd any proposition is the
greater the exertion necessary to produce by means of the
freely-deceptive or self-deceptive process a persuasion of the
verity of it the merit, being as the exertion is as the
absurdity, and the reward being as the merit is also as the absurdity
For Thus <add>For thus <add>Thus</add></add> the absurdity
of the the proposition
is the increase of the
exertion necessa employed
in producing
a persuasion of its verity.
of the verity of it.

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Date_1	1813-02-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	239	Info in main headings field	church
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