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<gap/> of <add>upholding</add> applying<lb/>the <add>penal</add> force of<lb/>this Sanction <add>by penal | <gap/> of <add>upholding</add> applying<lb/>the <add>penal</add> force of<lb/>this Sanction <add>by penal methods</add> to<lb/>points of political <lb/><gap/> | ||
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This then is the great and only article of religious faith, <del>which for</del> <add>to consider nothing more than</add> the mere temporal passions<lb/>of political society, it is | This then is the great and only article of religious faith, <del>which for</del> <add>to consider nothing more than</add> the mere temporal passions<lb/>of political society, <del>it is the interest and the duty<lb/>of the legislature to <gap/></del> the prevalence <add>adoption</add> of which<lb/>can be of any <del>use</del> <add>use</add> assistance to the legislator:<lb/>any others can at best but be indifferent, and<lb/><del>very probably</del> are very liable to be pernicious.<lb/>But any such article mischievous or not mischievous<lb/>in itself <del>becomes</del> is sure to be of mischievous<lb/>tendency as long as any coercive motives or indeed<lb/>any motives not at all are set at work <add><sic>employ'd</sic></add> by<lb/>the legislator to favour its adoption . . The persons<lb/>who can be in a way to embrace it <add>by whom it can be embraced</add> <del>be</del> they who<lb/>they may must <add>at the time when the supposed law is first established</add> come under one or other of the<lb/>disciplines following: either they are of opinion<lb/>with the article in question, or they are of opinion<lb/>against it, or they have not yet formed any opinion<lb/>about the matter. In the first <add>Applied to the first</add> case<lb/>the law is [unnecessary] and on that account, just<lb/>as any other law would be, pernicious: in the<lb/>second case it is productive of a degree of coercion<lb/>which by the supposition is useless, and as all<lb/>co-ercion is in itself <add>an</add> evil, on that account pernicious.</p> | ||
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2. by implanting<lb/>falsehood if applied<lb/>to credenda — when<lb/>the belief is already</note> | |||
But this is not all the mischief. That when <lb/>a man has once formed an opinion <add>right or wrong</add> about any<lb/> matter<lb/> | |||
[Indirect Legislation]
Religion
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of upholding applying
the penal force of
this Sanction by penal methods to
points of political
This then is the great and only article of religious faith, which for to consider nothing more than the mere temporal passions
of political society, it is the interest and the duty
of the legislature to the prevalence adoption of which
can be of any use use assistance to the legislator:
any others can at best but be indifferent, and
very probably are very liable to be pernicious.
But any such article mischievous or not mischievous
in itself becomes is sure to be of mischievous
tendency as long as any coercive motives or indeed
any motives not at all are set at work employ'd by
the legislator to favour its adoption . . The persons
who can be in a way to embrace it by whom it can be embraced be they who
they may must at the time when the supposed law is first established come under one or other of the
disciplines following: either they are of opinion
with the article in question, or they are of opinion
against it, or they have not yet formed any opinion
about the matter. In the first Applied to the first case
the law is [unnecessary] and on that account, just
as any other law would be, pernicious: in the
second case it is productive of a degree of coercion
which by the supposition is useless, and as all
co-ercion is in itself an evil, on that account pernicious.
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2. by implanting
falsehood if applied
to credenda — when
the belief is already
But this is not all the mischief. That when
a man has once formed an opinion right or wrong about any
matter
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