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3)
Comm. Miscell.
From 2. ⊞ Men who refuse decline taking a (determined) side part in questions points
of doctrine that influence not in the smallest degree the
happiness of society, (except by the absurd violence
with which they are enforced) men thus offending (for
to the disgrace of our Law this is an offence)
of doctrines that at the worst are to say the worst of them are but indifferent
shews if any thing can shew, that it is not any
regard to the happiness of society but the
impatience of a blind and groveling bigotry that (prompts them to punish as far as it is in their power to punish
the gainsayers of those who do them the injury of not joining
with them in their favourite tenets) has prompted
men to set the Magistrate to interfere, where he
has been set to interfere, in matters of opinion.
The peace of society one should hope might be
preserved though a man were not obliged to maintain
as a test of its his fitness to instruct the
people, that moral virtue is of no avail, to
and that Socrates is damned. But the peace of
society can will not be preserved a moment, if (and is
the persuasion of discourse like this, a man learns men learn
to fancy a any Law they do not like to be contrary
to a Law of Nature, and) whenever a man sees a Law
made which he does not like, he is under the notion of its
being contrary to a Law of God, to make it (his duty to
it) a point of conscience to rebel.
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