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17 Jany 1813.
Church
Ch. 11. Dignity
§.1. Abstract fitness
Part. 5. Error Cause
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§.1. Abstract fitness
Part V. Error Cause
1
The vulgar error in
question has for causes
— Interest — Interest
begotten prejudice —
adoptive prejudice.
p.1
2.
1. As to interest.
Respect though not
necessary to power,
is grateful to its possessors.
If respect wuld be
secured to dignity, as
easily as obedience to
power, misrule would
be altogether at ease.
2. by power, the chaises
are made, by factitious
respect, rivetted. In
the account current
of the ruling few,
power and respect
exercised and received
stand on the profit
service of any kind
rendered, on the loss
side. p.1.
3
Respect is positive or
negative, viz. positive
manifestation of it,
or absence of the contrary
tokens. p.2.
4
Of positive factitious
respect — the cause is
factitious dignity —
viz. title of honour,
with or without other
articles employed as
symbols for facilitating
extraction, or augmenting
produce of it.
p.2.
5
Ex. gr. in the ecclesiastical
English establishment,
gown, mitre,
lawn, throne, palace
&c. Each of these unhappily,
a certificate
of title to respect,
each certificate
false. p.2.
6.
Positive respect not
being extractable
by force, fraud is necessitated.
p.2.
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Pt V. Error Causes
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Negative respect, is
capable of being extracted
by force, i.e.
punishment is applicable
to the prevention
of exterior demonstrations
of disrespect.
p.3.
8.
Misrule is eased of
this check, by what
is called by misnomer
libel law: by misnomer,
because without definition,
there is,
properly speaking, no
law — that which assumes
the name
being arbitrary will.
p.3.
9
The higher pitch of
maturity public mind
has reached, the more
complete it's independance,
& the resistance
it is capable of opposing
to sinister influence.
p.4
10
By a variety of modes,
by corporal insults or
insulting language,
the more afflictive
the greater its publicity,
it is in the power
of the most worthless
to deprave the
most meritorious
persons, of more or
less of the respect due
to him. — Correspondently
public punishment,
not only may
prevent similar
outrages, but restore
more or less, the respect
abstracted. p.4.
11.
In it's operation on
the imagination —
by the irresistible
certainty of its effect
the artifice employed
for creation of factitious
dignity, coincides
with that of the ruffian
who to produce unmerited
suffering, expresses
towards the
object of his ill-will,
external manifestations
of contempt. p 5
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Pt V. Error Causes
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While The weakness of the
public mind permits
a ruffian out of power
to overwhelm whom
he will, with unmerited
disrespect — the
same weakness permits
the man in power,
to heap on any ones
head unmerited
respect p.5
13
To fortify the public
mind against the
influence of such sedation,
belongs to the political
writer, — prophet
as he was called by
the Jews. p.5.
14
To the legislator and
judge, belongs the
destruction of the
jus nocendè in both
these widely different distant
hands.
15
In the hand of the
lawless ruffian by
giving instruction and
power to afford that
against mortal injury
the protection which
in early ages would
not have been deemed
requisite
16
In the hand of the
possessor of administrative
power by abolition
or restration of factitious
dignity — i.e. abolition
if not as to the
temporal where it
may be employed to
preponderant advantage
yet to the ecclesiastical
establishment
where it is pure evil.
17
The more assured a
man is of receiving
and seeing received by
those he teaches interest
in spontaneous respect
the more he will
despise the tricks
by which factitious
dignity is conferred.
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