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1824. April 28
Constitutional Code
But the more and difficult the operation of backing
this chance by which the is kept held down sharing, the more
Obsequiousness Subjection to imposture is the work of a moment,
emancipation from it the work when if at length effected the work of
months and or years: to a mind originally a the moment of
entrance into a church yard produces at for the moment a persuasion suspicion at last
in regard to of the existence of ghosts in that particular spot a suspicion which the removal of which
in the strongest mind it may require minutes to remove.
On the back breast of the most or the most egregious
foot the sound of the word lordship is the glitter of a peace
of mind in the form of a star producing in the mind of the most
acute philosopher the persuasion of extraordinary worth and merit
as being lodged in the brain mind belonging to that worthless breast.
The second The chain being put on in earliest infancy, the every slightest
touch suffices for removing the stricture pressure: a state completely passive
suffices for the production of the effect: on the other hand scarcely
will the set most violent forceable effort of the strongest mind suffice for
the equally speedy removal of it.
The more and difficult the operation requisite
for the breaking of those disastrous and galling chains, the more strenuous should will
be the exertion made by every discerning friend of mankind human
happiness for at length bringing about the rupture.
Sooner or later One of these days after decorating the persons of an a right honorable
company circle of chimney sweepers and shoeblacks greating in
greated by each other and by the surrounding multitude with the
titles of Prince, Duke, Marquis, Earl Viscount and Lord, all
stars, crosses, ribbons, garters – all these instruments and evidences of public delusion after being dragged
through the mire, and buried under the contents of some Nightmare the cast of some
Night-mare will be coupled out into the common senses: and this
and that the talisman will be or will have been broken, the delusion
will be or will have been dissipated.
As yet the mental associations pr by which it has been produced
are of too long standing and thence too strongly cemented together by habit
to be generally dissolved. But by this continued effulgence of the light
or reason, sooner or later the dissolution will be effected.
So long as they lose these taken in by the ear or the eyes of the individual
that delusion were to the body state politic among the most deleterious of
poisons. But when men
in the appro forms of an appropriate
was in the indi
phrase an elegant
the antidote has been
made up, patients will not
be wanting, and at length a thorough compleat cure will be effected the result.
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