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1823. March 31

Constitut. Code.

Ch. XI Ministers Collectively §15 Religion Minister Punishment so applied is the very highest pitch height of tyranny It renders arms
for ever the Operation for in all its brushes against the Supreme Constitution. It
puts to silence and crushes the Public Opinion Tribunal

Reward so applied is corruption. It pays men indeed for
advocating there an opinion: what they believe true and useful but it pays them equally well for in case of their
advocating opinions which they believe to be mischi false and
mischievous.

It involves in it the absurdity of assuming that the
in point of approach intellectual aptitude, of the persons by whom
the law in question is made — not only over all these
but over all that can ever come after them: it declares
that quantity of wisdom is not in the direct but in the cover inverse
ratio of quantity of experience: and that to such a degree
as would warrant the taking out of their hands all minor
, and keeping them for ever in a state of domestic
slavery. Allow them this use of , you can not consistently
deny them any other. A very few hundred persons get
together, give to the most important of all subjects each of
them a few times, and this so the tumult of a debate, and by the determination
thus taken in a few hours turn them as many millions
are to be understood in the course of them which have so good to be incapable of a chance
for true judgment equal to that which is possessed by the majority
of a few hundreds at the end of an that never other
than cloudy incorrect, and incomplete consideration which is
the best that can ever to give to any subject by means of a
debate

As to the importance of the subject, let it not be undervalued
that no opinion in of religion is other than erroneous false
and mischievous, still the importance subject remains invested
with permanent importance. For by the that system of horror it is so which
to so vast an extent it is known to plant in the human
mind — a terror ending not unfrequently in madness, it is
capable of keeping man to a state much more affliction than
any in which they are capable of being kept by human punishment

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