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Those who are [well] versed in the mental physiology
[of the human mind] will never cease to forgive him
lament complain it's disposition to sow the seeds of so many maladies
in tender young minds, which it is for the strength of their
temperament to procure them firm, or sound
instruction to cure them of: the .... panic terms
a certain relaxation of [the mental frame]
..... and the hydrophobia of innovation.

Word-catching. word-catching a business equally futile and obnoxious — but having taken much
pains to find a sense in it, and finding none
I a man must catch at words or catch at nothing
If somthing in point of sense were said, the
were that somthing false, one might sit down
seriously and quickly to examine: but the great
grievance vexation is that to find nothing said in so many words
and that vexation occurring at every step: so that

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and to find the greatest part of what is said is just so much
worse than nothing.

Blemishes Heads of. His definitions consisting strings of identical propositions
or explaining ignotum per ignotius.
His terms nomenclature like a weathercock: you
never meet with the same term twice together
in the same place.

In the midst of all this darkness, here and
there we assert a position makes it's appearance
that is intelligible: and as sure
almost as it is intelligible it will be found
false.

In Upon ground that is already cover'd, and that
groans beneath the load that's laid on it,
clearing a way the rubbish is a necessary
step to preparatory to building.

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It is singular curious [to observe] that this author a writer
who is so eager to have men punished
for discourses that are being at variance with him in their discourses,
can scarce ever keep clear from
being at variance with himself for two
pages together. instance Sanction in p.
54. attributed & denied to human Laws.

A source tends to enervate the energies of the human
mind.
Submission in conduct X in judgment. A torpedo, a source of national torpidity,
inculcates submission not to men in power authority
not in act of conduct only, which is a source of peace,
but a in judgment which is a source
ignorance and stupidity.
Not submission to in act of behaviour which is the mother
of peace: but submission of judgment which
is the mother of stupidity.

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... he would enter upon resistance, not
at the call of utility, but upon the beckoning
of the priest.
Yes, even he can talk of resistance, but
upon what signal? not upon the call of
utility, but upon the beckoning of the priest.
When somebody who pretends to be versed in
the Law of Revelation or in the non-entity
of the Law of nature gives the word and
pronounces one of those Laws to be counteracted
by any human Law, then it is
this that human Law is at come what will
of it, to be transgressed. A doctrine more
favourable to the enterprizes of fanatics could
not have been issued hoped for from the school of
.
[Happily such vain blasts are insignificant
without the proper fuel.

BLACKSTONE. IV.

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