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OBSTACLES &c Authority

That rage of keeping pushing off reason at Arm's length & rushing
flying ones self headlong [with eyes shut closed eyes] into the arms embraces of Authority

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OBSTACLES PREJUG Authority.

Those would court Authorities when
they should weigh reasons, & decide
questions of Politics & Morality by Arithmetic.

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OBSTACLES Prejug. Authority

For want of information self-obtained
People who have not the
means of forming a judgment
of their own on any point,
are ever most anxious in de-
— Authority
they have been
who derogates disparages
the master,
scholar who
has received

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OBSTACLES. PREJUGES Against change.

Who never consider when they cry out against the subversion of
established constitutions by-laws, never consider that they
are censuring the very constitution they imagine themselves
to defend, which came not [to be] what it is, but by
the subversion of a numerous strata of former constitutions
by-laws, upon whose means it is erected.

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OBSTACLES PREJUGÉS Antiquity

So prone is the inference from eulogy to imitation

There is not a practice
more noxious, tho'
at the same time there
is not one more common

That nothing is more noxious to the progress of science,
than attributing (without any qualifying expression)
prior to the first inventors and subsequent improvers
of it whose praises eulogies are absolute which
are only due to them by relation.

laid backwards to
them in a picture
of adoration

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