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6 Jany 1813
Church Ch Declarations
5
Power over belief
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Will being guided by understanding it a King's as note /1 that
understanding should be as obsequious thence as much as possible.
or he may been better understood so more especially actions.
As by examining
proportions the
mind is strengthened
so by blindly
asserting it is
weakened
As by the active <add>exercise and</add> habit of examining proportions, each
upon its own ground the force of the mind is strengthened
so by the proper habit of asserting them on the ground
of authority and thus taking them upon trust, it is
weakened
In so far as depends
on habit - strength
of mind is as
the number of
occasions of when indigenous
belief has
been formed
inversely as those
[where adoptive do
has been formed.
Quere]
In so far as depends upon exercise and habit
the strength of the mind is in the direct ratio of
the number of the occasions in which the belief opinion or persuasion it forms
is of the ind indigenous kind, and in the inverse ratio
of the number of occasions
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