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Fallacies

Ch. Authority worshippers
§.4. Churchmen's sinister interest

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By reward or punishment
to produce
real and immediate
belief impossible

9a
Expressions proposed
1. the chair I sit on exists
not. 2. Two others sit
in it with me

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What things may be produced
by it —
1. Abstinence from declaring
disbelief
2. Declaration of belief
3. Turning aside from
all considerations
tending to produce
disbelief
4. Looking out for
and sustaining attention
to all do having to
produce belief.
5. — authority especially, by which
a sort of and
indistinct belief of
the most absurd propositions
in
have every where been
produced

On any other ground within the field of knowledge no man
would now a days at this time of day propose such instruments means as in the character
instruments capable of means calculated of securing mens acceptance for
of truth of securing acceptance for truth rejection
for falshood error of securing them against the acceptance embrace of
of error. A man A school master would not be looked upon as
being in his right mind true who thus instead of
putting Euclids demonstrations into the hands of his
scholar should give him without the demonstrations
put a list of the propositions into his hand, and give him
a guinea for signing a paper express declarative
of his believing them, or lock him up for a couple
of days without food on his refusal to sign it:
and so in chemistry mathematics mechanics, husbandry, astronomy
or any other branch of knowledge

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On no other part
of the field of knowledge
are reward or punishment
now a days considered
as fit instruments
for the production of assent
or dissent. Examples
1. Mathematics
2. Chemistry.

In comparison of the truth belonging to any of these
or any other branches of knowledge belonging
to the subject of religion, in so far as their truths
have an influence on human happiness, truths
belonging to any of these other branches of knowledge
are with reference to man's interest indeed of infinitely
small importance, which at the same truths which though belonging
to the subject of religion have no influence on human
happiness are, with reference to mans interest, of no
importance at all. But the more important a
truth is, the more flagrant the absurdity of applying
to the purpose of engaging mens acceptance of it
means which have no real preferable tendency to promote a
mans real acceptance of truth while they have a preferable
tendency to promote his acceptance of error in the stead of it.

Identifier: | JB/104/116/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1810-07-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	9, 9a, 10-11
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	116	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d27 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections	peregrine bingham	Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	34087
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