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Indirect Legislation Religion

there is at any rate. In the first place it is by
no means certain will indeed sometimes happen,
but it will not happen always that the judgment
shall be gained over by the bias thus applied
to the affection: as often as the negative is the
case the persons now in question will be in
the same case as the persons spoken of before.
Let even the affirmative be the case take place
the case will not be free from mischief. A man
in the formation of whose belief, if belief it can
be called, fear has any, be it ever so small a
share, is never easy: if he believes at one moment he is continually afraid of
not believing the next . Nor is it for nothing that he purchases
this his precarious repose: an enfeebled understanding
is the price he pays for it: an an a right judgment just discern
and
an unclouded apprehension and a just
discernment he has must have learnt to look upon as attainments
to be dreaded: he must have his [mind] judgment rendered a sort
of obsequious faculty
his mind the whole system of his mental faculties he must have beenreduced
to that state of obsequious indifference imbecility in which right
a [truth and falshood appear alike plausible undistinguishable , and]
right and wrong appear matters of indifference, and
truth and falshood indistinguishable. He must at any
rate



Identifier: | JB/087/022/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

8

Box

087

Main Headings

indirect legislation

Folio number

022

Info in main headings field

indirect legislation

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f9 / f10 / f11 / f12

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

c. hamilton

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

27547

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