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<head>Fallacies Ch. Authority-worshippers
§.4. Churchmen's sinister interest

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3. It is their interest that whatever be the absurdity
of the articles in question it is their interest that
as many persons as jointly with themselves have
been in the habit of professing a belief in them
should continue in that same habit, as also
that as many more should engage in it as possible
and this is more strongly their interest in this respect
is the stronger, the more flagrant and palpable that absurdity,
the stronger and more urgent is that interest. For the greater
the number is of those who in appearance join with
themselves in the same belief the greater is the
number who join with them in delivering for cash
for the benefit of himself and the rest a sort of
evidence circumstantial evidence, such as is delivered by authority it is the of
authority to deliver, negating the imputation of absurdity,
and votes at any rate stand pretended each of them from joining
in the casting of any such imputation upon the
rest.

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3. The more flagrant
the absurdity,the
stronger the each man's interest
in engaging as many
as possible in joining
with him in the profession
of assent to it. For
1. The greater the number
of such co-declarants
the greater do of of
whose professions the
elements of authority
are composed.

2. of those who
stand precluded from
in the rest
the imputation of
insincerity.

Identifier: \| JB/104/122/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1810-07-22	Marginal Summary Numbering	7
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	122	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d33 / e11
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	34093
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