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All the These considerations, be it remembered are wholly apart from Revelation: for it is this assumed disposition in the deity It is assumed without
reference to any revealed authority that there is a disposition in the Deity
to produce pain to no end and for no result of good that is to be got attained by it, that is to be
the It is even assumed that this is a fit medium to prove his moral qualities: and it is his moral qualities that so described
are to be the medium to prove a revelation.

Observe How mischievously these fallacies hang together! God is determined to punish certain actions How fatal to the beneficial
for no reason that can be given. At the same time, man is determined, say influences of the religious sanction to place it in
the same moralists, to hate those same actions, for no reason neither that can contradiction, – in opposition to all the undoubted motives to action –
be given, not even for that reason, that God punishes them. All this they to all the dictates of experience – to all the influences
require you should take their word for, although part of it by their own showing of pain & pleasure. And into what does such a theory
be not true: viz: that men hate them: for it is because men do not hate them resolve itself Into the mere assumptions – the theories –
the dogmatisms of the theorist.

There is a class of Ecclesiastics, whose end is anything rather than the improvement and
exercise of the reasoning faculty; to overwhelm it, – to per fling
it into the dust – is their constant task & toil.
They dare not encourage thought, – or lend a helping hand to philosophy.
They know better, those that are penetrating and discreet among them, (and
those that are dull follow the rest by instinct) those to church and .... they know there is a
power between which and them there is a natural enmity, which if exerted
liberally and universally cannot but be exerted to their discomfiture. They
remember well, and make due application of the fable of the Man and Serpent.

They know and see with horror and confusion how apt sound science is
to make men rebellious to their doctrines. That expansion of mind which
the acquisition of it confers – that habit of inquisitiveness which the pursuit
of it gives birth is mortal to those delusions by which the credit of their
systems is supported.

They know they have every thing to fear from science philosophy, and thus it is that
In consequence there is not a track they would not invite men to
in preference to that of moral science, and of all tracks, that best answers
their purpose for men to be engaged in, which encircling the foot of the
mountain, and obscuring the approaches to the summit, offers flowers to
fascinate the eye of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	208	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f66
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	[[watermarks::j rump 1831 [partial britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	ann elizabeth lind; franz ludwig tribolet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1831
Notes public		ID Number	5424
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