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On examination it will The more clearly we examine they more thoroughly we shall be convinced be found that in the order this practise implants
many vices and not one virtue — in the State many mischiefs, and not
one advantage. When well-meaning people deny the right of the Legislature to interfere in matters of this sort they know not what they say: they resemble bulk of newpapers politicians who when they have or think they have occasion to combat the complain of a disposition of the Law as inexpedient & begin [regularly] with proving it to be illegal.

Either the credit of the order is of importance to the State or it is not: if
it is not it is of no consequence part it even if it should (which it certainly will
not) suffer by the proposed change: if it is every thing what contributes to brighten it, must
be a benefit to the community — how nothing can contribute more to brighten it
than the of that standing cloud. Applied to the whole state the great of right rectitude & ability coincide:

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There are two methods of settling these disputes; the one English, & the other French:
The French way is, to put a gag into the mouths of the disputants, and oblige them
if possible to hold their tongues — + It was thus they repeatedly dealt as every one knows with the Jansenists & Molinists & with the Orthodox other Scholastics: prudently & consistently enough it must be confessed upon with the System principles of arbitrary power - under such a dispensation, to think and to express one's thoughts are dangerous precedents. the English is, to let them talk on, & take no
notice of the matter. — [It is for an English Legislator to choose which it
will pursue.]

But to imagine that the peace happiness and happiness tranquillity of the State are attached to the
prevalence of either any alternative of of opinion upon these speculative questions, or that any which
can accrue to the State from taking part with either, is to be very ignorant
of the general contribution of human nature, & particularly of the disposition the present temperature of men's
at present in particular — In one respect indeed they may be said to possess [an] importance;
but [it is] such an importance as the prejudiced temerity of a Legislature
will equally confer upon that dispute be it what it will that shall be assigned
[But for an example] as the most futile — It is thus the controversy upon the light
on Mount Tabor may be said to have been of importance to the Byzantian empire: &
of so great of importance, as to have contributed not inconsiderably to it's destruction.

Identifier: | JB/096/291/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.
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