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19 Sept. 1814 2
Logic or Ethics
Deontology
Ch. Deontologist office
2
§.2. Improper Office Mode
§.2. Improper mode.
Very different is the mode in which this office
has in greatest with few or no if any exceptions been
hitherto exercised.
The time situation of the Schoolmaster, as of the Magistrate, —
at any rate the time of authority of the man of authority is the time
in which he delivers himself. He alone is strong,
and wise and knowing and virtuous: his readers are weak, or and foolish
or and ignorant and vicious. His language voice is the language voice
of power: and it is of in the superiority of his wisdom that
his title to that power is composed.
In what has thus been described no real mischief
has yet been brought to view. If without prejudice
to the public to any one else the pride of the individual
enjoys its a gratification so much the better: it constitutes
the matter of a reward — of a reward sort which
if productive of real service would not be improperly
employed.
The misfortune is — that in the case of their assumed literary
moral power authority as in the case of political authority power, arrogance
has for its natural attendants indolence and ignorance.
Even when the times or precepts or by whatsoever other names
the productions emanations of authority are called, are such of a nature
to afford good reasons, to give to these reasons due expression and arrangement
is commonly a work of no inconsiderable difficulty: [+]
[+] a task for which
few indeed have
hitherto been found
competent
But to in to
issuing giving the laws or precepts themselves no difficulty at all is commonly
attendant: it is a function or operation to the performance
of
of which every man who
has power is competent:
the most foolish ask less than the most wise. Ignorance has not a more convenient cloak than arrogance
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