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1822 July 7
Constitut. Code

Now as to the vitiation intellectual corruption of the intellectual part of the mental
frame: So long A and first as to the teacher of that which in his eyes is to his
senses falshood. So long as he believes to be false that which he
asserts to be true, the person remains in his moral frame and goes
no further. But what may happen, and to a certain extent probably
does happen is – that finding this state of mind more or
less irksome, he uses his endeavours to get out of it. That
which he believes to be false he endeavours to believe to be true.
For this purpose there is one and but one course. This on every occasion is to call
off his attention from the all considerations which tending to cause the
belief in question to be regarded as false, and at the same time to
apply his attention to all considerations tending to cause it to be
believed to be true: not omitting to set and keep his invention at work in the
search of after new ones, additional ones. Call this the self-deceptive process. In the here supposed case
by the supposition the system is true: therefore in as the particular one individual subject
system or subject matter in question, no error, no vitiation of the
intellectual frame is among the consequence. But in the meantime
a habit has been acquired by him, a habit by which the intellectual
frame is vitiated in its application to all subjects: the habit
of partiality: the habit of wilful blindness, the habit by from which
a man derives a propensity to believe embrace falshood and
serve in preference to truth whatsoever be the subject.

Look once more to the Westminster Hall witness with
the stones in his shoe. The side on which he has been engaged
has happened to be the right side, in this there is nothing extraordinary:
for a fact which in itself is true is not rendered false by
the death of a witness who if alive would have proved it. The paid side
in favour of on which he has given his testimony has been is the right side, but
the immorality vices by which his moral character has been stained is
not the less gross. So in the is it with the priest who of the lone religion
in the case of the true system in regard to religion so is it with the priest
who having when first hired believed it to be false, being by the use made
of that process which in its general aspects is the self-deceptive process, comes
to believe it to be true. The difference and only difference that in this case the
seat of the disease is not no longer in the moral but in the intellectual part of man's
frame: it has shifted from the one to the other.

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Date_1	1822-07-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	080	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b4 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11295
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