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3)
Obstacles.
hearts stand exposed laid open to their own view as well
as that of others they may ... perhaps.
and when they find no remedy, to which back join
hands at last with the partizans of reformation
and strike with them into the paths of utility and truth.
Their argument strikes with equal force against
that which they are so strenuous to defence, (as
against that which they combat. against which it is levelled.) What now is
establishment, once was innovation.
To betake themselves to these common places
and inconclusive arguments is as much as in effect to confess
either their ignorance or their insincerity: their
Ignorance in not knowing how to being qualified to ener upon the
true merits by balancing setting in balance the advantages and
disadvantages of the two establishments institutions, the control established
and the proposed: or their insincerity inasmuch in that knowing
(the feebleness of) their cause to be such as that that the real merits of the question are against them, they
take this method employ these artifices of concealing to conceal it (its weakness.)
No man can oppose innovation, herely as
innovation, without confessing himself an enemy
of the pubic welfare.
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