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One is to conclude, that because professions once made have
afterwards been departed from that therefore they were insincere at the time
they were made.
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Another is to conclude suppose that men profess such and such
sentiments solely because they are of such & such a party, whereas the case may
be that they are of such a party because such and such are their sentiments.
3
A third is where a man may be a gainer by professing such
and such sentiments to conclude in every case that such interest is the sole
cause of his professing such sentiments.
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The greater part of those who in point of opinions are swayed by
interest are probably sincere. This is the case when the interest
which sways them is not perceived by or sensible to themselves.
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There are few perhaps who have the boldness to own their dishonesty
to themselves: few who say to themselves aloud this is not my opinion
but yet I will say it is, because I can get so much by saying so. Interest
in general acts in a more covert2 and insensible1 manner. It does not
attack men's integrity in front but undermines it. It occasions them
to view the arguments against the proscribed opinion with more complacency
those in favor of it with less. When any of the former pay a visit make their appearance in
the mind, they are thought much of: they are regarded with attention,
and have their full weight given them: – when any of the latter, they
are viewed askance, and hurtilled hustled as it were out of the mind without
being looked at a hearing.
MS Ethics. Vol. V. p.55-6.
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