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1824. Jany 20.
Constitutional Code

Leave the whole field open to inquiry,
unreserved and unfettered inquiry, useful
or useless, everything that is done and said
is at any rate innoxious: for if from one mouth
noxious matter issues, from another comes medicinal
matter which neutralizes it, and destroys
it's effect.

But, be the portion of the field what
it may – on that portion be the question what
it may – let the supposed service be the giving support
to one side of that question, to the exclusion
of the other – now it is, that the reward becomes
poison. To gain it, he whose real opinion is
on one side of the question, pretends it to be
on the other, and employs his endeavours in
inculcating it as if it were his own, there, then, if insincerity be immorality,
already behold the moral poison. But to no
an is the idea of his own immorality a pleasant
one. Feeling it an unpleasant one, his
endeavours will be naturally and constantly
at work at ridding him of it. For this purpose,
nature affords, and on every occasion presents
and appropriate process. It may be stiled the self
deceptive process. The recipe is this. Be the subject
what it may, be the question what it may
be the side of the question what it may, that
you have pretended to espouse, direct your
attention to the arguments on in favor of that side, keeping
it turned with inflexible perserverance, agst
all arguments in favor of the opposite side.

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Date_1	1824-01-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	387	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11602
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