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6 Nov 1810 + 10 Fallacies Pointer symbol Rudiments not to be copied Tris Ch. Authority worshippers §.3. Expression Authority mischievous

1. Authority the arch enemy of utility and Reason

2. It is the stock of the weak: the grand engine of the

3. Reference wicked to it is never in any instance necessary: — beneficial, is otherwise than pernicious.

3. Were general utility, in the character of the end of government, referred to on every occasion, a separation would thus be made between those institutions which are useful to the whole number or the many, and those that being useful only to the few, are pernicious to the many.

4. By referring to authority as the standard this separation is avoided.

5. In the case therefore of those institutions which are really conducive to the general good those who have an interest in the support of abuses avoid referring that ground of justification All Every abuse that ever was established had authority for its support which is made by shewing conduciveness to the common end: in justification of them they employ the plea of authority and that alone. Why? because authority serves as well for a justification of the abuse of which they have the whole profit to or of the good points the benefit of which is shewed by the the whole community are sharing) [+] [+] Authority is therefore a ground on which no institution whatsoever however beneficial or necessary might to be left to rest. Because which the number the in number of and the beneficent institutions are there are left to rest upon it, the greater the reliance that men continue to place upon this tr support by which the most mischievous institutions are as officially supported as the most beneficial ones

By From reason such institutions alone can derive support as are conducive to general utility. From authority all institutions whatsoever that are in existence derive support — equal support — together: the most pernicious and the most beneficial: those pernicious ones which but from authority would be unsupported and unsupportable. Horizontal line in pencil

Means taken by the profiters from abuses to increase the subjection to authority. Impretation of rustiness, of presumption and self-conceitedness in those who pos take upon themselves to appeal to reason Horizontal line

Had the same regard deference been paid to authority by in forcefullness which men in power their utmost to engage us to pay to it at present, the information on religion, such as it is would never have been effected. It was by trampling upon the idol, and not by lying prostrate at the feet of it, that the reformation was effected. Horizontal line

Hypocrisy — weakness — both in a degree sufficient to render unfit a a man fit unfit to bear a part in government — those are the attributes between which the supporters of authority against reason .

p Were but this idol burnt as idols and to be burnt the would be dep the common be bandage bound about mens eyes by lawyers would drop off. The Common Law their work would be seen to be from first to last from top to bottom a compound of wickedness and ab: both of the grossest kind: wickedness the end, the reason.

Authority is the idol before which all lawyers are continually in their knees, continually endeavouring to drag others down into the same posture — No Pope was ever a man than all lawyers are.

Identifier: | JB/104/131/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1810-11-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	131	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d10 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public	"rudiments not to be copied"	ID Number	34102
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