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11 June 1811 32
<head>Fallacies
Authority-worshippers
§.5. Prevalence Causes
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To. J. C. Mind the transposition
(2)
Of such a state of things one necessary consequence
is — that, excepting with the exception of those in whose instance by anti-constitutional
dependence whatsoever intellectual qualifications
they possess are rendered so much worse than useless, the
House body is composed of a set of men the furniture
of whose minds is composed consists of an a compound collection
of jarring prejudices such as picked out as used for each occasion
out of such of the current prejudices as on that
same occasion present themselves as most favourable
to their interests — to the species of interest to which it has
happened to be brought into action operation by the incidents
of the day.
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Consequence — those
excepted in whose
knowledge intelligence
and talent are worse
than useless, the
House composed of
men the furniture
of whose minds is
composed of discordant
prejudices,
of which on each
occasion they follow
such as by which on that occasion
the interest
or passion of the moment
happens to be most
favoured!
(1)
Thus while a few only are in any degree of dependence
on the people whose fate is in their hands, even these
few are in a state of more efficient dependence on
the set of men who of right to the purpose of good government
and the acknowledged purposes of the active existing constitution
should be dependent upon them, while the dependence
as toward the same set of men the dependence of the
rest is altogether efficient and compleat.
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3. Because while
so few are dependent
on those on whom
they ought to be dependent,
so many
are dependent on those
who ought to be dependent
on them:
viz. those servants
of the Crown on whose
conduct they are commissioned
by their electors
to sit as Judges
(2)
Between the possessors holders tenants of supreme power in possession and
the holders of the same powers in possession, all that who
by whom who have any intellectual powers or active appropriate talents are
possessed are divided: the rest are of those who
having nothing to sell but their body are not worth
purchasing at such price as men have to give — if men
with walking or sitting bodies without minds are composed
with few or no exceptions all who have any pretension to the principle of probity and or independence.
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What share of knowledge,
intelligence and natural
talent is in the House
is thus divided between
those who are, and
their rivals who hope
to be, servants of the
Crown. Naturally if
the
corrupted or uncorrupted
and foibles, who attend not but for a .
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