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CLASSIFICATION. Individuals 𝓧 State – Warbn.
Nothing exposes us more to illusions than the too free current use of these very general expressions, than within
a careful & continued due examination of their meaning – without it we [are] perpetually [led] stray unawares into nonsense & contradiction.
It is no uncommon thing to meet with writers who will put speak of the State in contradistinction to the Individuals
which compose it – A celebrated Prelate Right Reverend Author has gone a step farther and put them
by that very description in contradistinction to themselves. It was necessary however, that this
should be done, or tha an octave Volume elegantly written would be [turned into] so much was
Paper – Individuals contracting or alleging themselves with one another, would never
do, for then the Clergy must be the one, & the rest of the nation State the other, for which
purpose the Clergy must have been originally a separate & independent body, and theirs a doctrine which, the as he well knows
& openly declares, the neither Age neither would never nor ought to have endured. All the Individuals therefore he
says are the Church, and all the Individuals too are the State. And the Individuals
being Church have contracted & allied themselves with themselves being State: and the terms of this contract
and Alliance are as he sets forth – He admitts indeed, that this was never true in point of
fact; but this he says, signifies nothing: for the original contract between King & People
in which he says what is very true, is in the same case. But this contract of his is
only is not so never was made, but by in the nature of things, (or of words if any one rather so please) was
possibly could be made, or conceived to be so. It is very possible that Hengist &and Horsa
[But] nobody who had not but one who has a Theory which was is to be set up at any rate, could ever think could have thought.
If there was any sense in but in the way of jest or figure, that D Mr Warburton
had enter'd into a contract with the present Bishop of Gloucester: nor can could any thing be more negatory
than such a contract, supposing it could be made, when the at what instant that Dr
Warburton had brake should choose to broke it, the Bishop of Gloucester should would have consented to the
breach. Universally, it must that there be at least two distinct parties to a contract† † if a person determines with himself as the phrase is to do a thing it is not a contract but a resolution., is a condition the essentiality
of which, the very language which he uses, in spite of himself betrays: and how this
is falsified by the splitting of a man or a number of men each into two selves,
is for the reader to judge determine. If instead of this Technical that ingenious and able writer he had taken the
principle of Utility for his foundation, it might or might not have answer'd his
purpose, but it would never have given birth to any such contradictions.⊞ ⊞ It is inconceivable how much these ingenious Legislators retard the progress of true Science. Words become spoilt for use; and the whole Science becomes is bound into something worse than, worse than a Babel in which a man neither knows what is
<add>said by another nor himself. He certainly means
that the virtues of such powers and privileges in Ecclesiastics was is of utility viz: contributes to the happiness of the
of the members of the State as well as of themselves & why did he not say so and go about discussing
Universal NOMENCATURE Individuals 𝓧 State |BR|1| | Warburton. Abuse. General terms
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