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16 Feby 1813 Church II Topics Ch 6 6

In this case however
intellectual authority
is indispensable -
All the mind can
do is to factor on
the affirmative to
the exclusion of
the disaffirmative
proportions. The
nature of the case
admits not of indigenous
and so must
be of the adoptive kind.
In this case to produce to the production of any such
persuasion the intervention of authority - intellectual authority
is seems indispensible. Towards the production of persuasion, all
that the power of the will can do, is contained in the [freely]
self-deceptive process: viz in the exclusion of putting an exclusion upon all considerations
operating in disaffirmance of the proposition in question,
coupled with joined to the fastening the attention upon all such as
operate in affirmance of it. Of any Such persuasion
if produced can not but be either of the indigenous or
of the adoptive kind. But of any considerations tending to produce a persuasion of the indigenous kind the nature
of the case does not admitt. remain therefore such
considerations and such alone of which the tendency of
which is to produce a persuasion of the adoptive kind.
and but these con but under the name of authority —
intellectual authority — all these such considerations are stand
included.

That two & two
make more or less
than 4 could not
be receive by belief
by my efforts of
human nature, - But
by authority this or
any other may be
made to receive credence
and accordingly propositions
of the same nature
have received as
sincere belief as if
compatible with
the deceptive process
That two and two are either more or less than
four is a proposition in favour of which, at upon the spot, and without the help of <add>intellectual authority</add> all the terms
found to all the to which human nature is
exposed susceptible would not suffice to produce credence. But, by means
of authority this proposition is as capable of being made
to receive credence as any other and accordingly, [as every
body knows] propositions of exactly the same complection
have been made to receive not only pretended, but, accordingly
to all probability, as founded deduced from the observations
above mentioned, a sort of secure and real evidence:
credence as secure as is compatible with the employment
of the self-deceptive process above mentioned.

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Date_1	1813-02-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	241	Info in main headings field	church
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