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1810 July 22 + §A B 30
Fallacies
Ch. Authority worshippers
§.4. Churchmen's sinister interest
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In these circumstances it is his interest to do
to bar Catholics therefore his is worth nothing
In these circumstances it is the interest of the Churchman
to do what he can towards supporting and propagating
the following opinions
17 or 1
Opinions which,
either state of
interest engages a Churchman
to support.
1. That where in a case cases insincerity may to an
unlimited extent be practiced without possibility
of detection, (especially for particularly to any such purpose as that
of punishment or general ,) rewards,
for attached to the practice of such insincerity, (rewards
amounting to rising as high as to an income
several times greater than what is allotted to a an Minister
of state by whom the whole business of the empire is
directed,) have no tendency to produce insincerity it;
1. Detection-proof Insincerity practically
to an unlimited extent
reward to the
highest extent tends
not to promote it.
2. — or item, that money which in the event of a
certain course of conduct being conformed to being is bestowed, and
in the event of its not being conformed to departure from that course's being avoided is not bestowed,
does not operate tend, in the character as a reward to engage men to give birth to such practise
such practise
2
2 — so that money
given in case of compliance,
not given
in case of non-compliance
is not
reward for compliance
3 4. or else that insincerity is not not a vice
but conducive to a virtue, and as such ought fit
to be cultivated and promoted.
3
3 — or insincerity
not vice but virtue
and as such ought
to be promoted
4 3. and so in regard to punishment; viz. in so far
as in relation to insincerity as above, punishment is employed
in addition to or in lieu place of reward.
4
4. So punishment
applied
2 is not punishment
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