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19 June 1816
Cat.

Introd. IV

§.9. Actors who
Archbishops Speech

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Such are the fit fallacies — the long ago state, yet
still under the joint discourse of sinister interest interest-begetting prejudice
and indolence mental indolence still but too successful fallacies by which abuses abuse and misrule in every shape are
protected against reformation: Abuse Taken by itself themselves
taken by its own name, they abuse and misrule can not be defended
taken each under its own name, abuses pernicious and
abusive institutions the work joint product of sinister interest,
interest begotten prejudice — primæval weakness and
adoptive weakness, can not so easily be defended: but
mix them up all together in conjunction with whatsoever
portion of good has come down to us from former
ages, beginning at the most ignorant and barbarous
then it becomes is presented presents itself — all together winds up
into a mass with the fruit of the wisdom of ages:
and then it becomes heresy and Jacobinism to
propose any further change in it. When an institution
is so flagrantly pernicious that not so much as a syllable
is can be found to be said for it taken by itself, thus much always remains
to be said for it, and that incontestably, viz. that it exists.
Thus When therefore in his endeavours to defend give support to the institution be
it what it may you see him defending it on the ground of its being the product of
the wisdom of ages — when in a word you see him in
bringing out otherwise than with scorn the expression wisdom
of ages one thing you may without much danger
of error assure yourself — viz. that in his view at least
the thing be it what it may is so flagrantly palpably not only merely
bad but so palpably bad as to not to be on any other
ground defensible — that upon no other ground can any thing said in

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