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<p>3)</p> | |||
<p><head>Comm. Miscell.</head></p> | |||
<p><note>From 2. ⊞</note> Men who <del>refuse</del> <add>decline</add> taking a (determined) side <add>part</add> in questions <add>points<lb/> | |||
of doctrine</add> that influence not in the smallest degree the<lb/> | |||
happiness of society, (except by the absurd violence<lb/> | |||
with which they are enforced) men thus offending (for<lb/> | |||
to the disgrace of our Law this is an offence)</p> | |||
<p>of doctrines that <del>at the worst are</del> <add>to say the worst of them are but</add> indifferent<lb/> | |||
shews if any thing can shew, that it is not any<lb/> | |||
regard to the happiness of society but the <del><gap/></del><lb/> | |||
<add>impatience</add> of a blind and groveling bigotry that (prompts them to punish as far as it is in their power to punish<lb/> | |||
<add>the gainsayers of</add> those who do them the injury of not joining<lb/> | |||
with them in their favourite tenets) has prompted<lb/> | |||
men to set the Magistrate to interfere, where he<lb/> | |||
has been set to interfere, in matters of opinion.</p> | |||
<p>The peace of society one should hope might be<lb/> | |||
preserved though a man were not obliged to maintain<lb/> | |||
as a test of <del>its</del> his fitness to instruct the<lb/> | |||
people, that moral virtue is of no avail, <del>to</del><lb/> | |||
and that Socrates is damned. But the peace of<lb/> | |||
society can <add>will</add> not be preserved a moment, if <del>(and is<lb/> | |||
the persuasion of discourse like this, a man learns <add>men learn</add><lb/> | |||
to fancy a <add>any</add> Law they do not like to be contrary<lb/> | |||
to a Law of Nature, and)</del> whenever a man sees a Law<lb/> | |||
made which he does not like, he is under the notion of its<lb/> | |||
being contrary to a Law of God, to make it <del>(his duty to<lb/> | |||
it)</del> a point of conscience to rebel.</p> | |||
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3)
Comm. Miscell.
From 2. ⊞ Men who refuse decline taking a (determined) side part in questions points
of doctrine that influence not in the smallest degree the
happiness of society, (except by the absurd violence
with which they are enforced) men thus offending (for
to the disgrace of our Law this is an offence)
of doctrines that at the worst are to say the worst of them are but indifferent
shews if any thing can shew, that it is not any
regard to the happiness of society but the
impatience of a blind and groveling bigotry that (prompts them to punish as far as it is in their power to punish
the gainsayers of those who do them the injury of not joining
with them in their favourite tenets) has prompted
men to set the Magistrate to interfere, where he
has been set to interfere, in matters of opinion.
The peace of society one should hope might be
preserved though a man were not obliged to maintain
as a test of its his fitness to instruct the
people, that moral virtue is of no avail, to
and that Socrates is damned. But the peace of
society can will not be preserved a moment, if (and is
the persuasion of discourse like this, a man learns men learn
to fancy a any Law they do not like to be contrary
to a Law of Nature, and) whenever a man sees a Law
made which he does not like, he is under the notion of its
being contrary to a Law of God, to make it (his duty to
it) a point of conscience to rebel.
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