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<add>there</add> is at any rate. In the first place it <del>is by</del><lb/><del>no means certain</del> will indeed sometimes happen,<lb/>but it will not happen always that the judgment<lb/>shall be gained over by the bias thus applied<lb/>to the affection: as often as the negative is the<lb/>case the persons now in question will be in<lb/>the same case as the persons spoken of before.<lb/><del><gap/></del> Let even the affirmative <del>be the case</del> take place<lb/>the case will not be free from mischief. A man<lb/>in the formation whose belief, if belief it can <lb/>be called, fear has any, be it ever so small a<lb/>share, is never easy: <add>if he believes <del>at</del> one moment</add> he is continually afraid of<lb/>not believing <add>the next</add> . Nor is it for nothing that he purchases<lb/>this his precarious repose: an enfeebled understanding<lb/>is the price he pays for it: <del>an an a right judgment <add> | <add>there</add> is at any rate. In the first place it <del>is by</del><lb/><del>no means certain</del> will indeed sometimes happen,<lb/>but it will not happen always that the judgment<lb/>shall be gained over by the bias thus applied<lb/>to the affection: as often as the negative is the<lb/>case the persons now in question will be in<lb/>the same case as the persons spoken of before.<lb/><del><gap/></del> Let even the affirmative <del>be the case</del> take place<lb/>the case will not be free from mischief. A man<lb/>in the formation whose belief, if belief it can <lb/>be called, fear has any, be it ever so small a<lb/>share, is never easy: <add>if he believes <del>at</del> one moment</add> he is continually afraid of<lb/>not believing <add>the next</add> . Nor is it for nothing that he purchases<lb/>this his precarious repose: an enfeebled understanding<lb/>is the price he pays for it: <del>an an a right judgment <add>just discern</add><lb/>and</del> an unclouded apprehension and a just<lb/>discernment he has <add>must have</add> learnt to look upon as attainment<lb/>to be dreaded: <del>he must have <add>his [mind] judgment</add> rendered a sort<lb/> not of obsequious faculty</del> his mind <add>the whole system of his mental faculties</add> he must have <add>been</add >reduced<lb/>to that state of obsequious <del>indifference</del> <add>imbecility</add> in which <del>right</del><lb/><del>a</del> [truth and falsehood appear alike plausible <add>undistinguishable</add> , and]<lb/>right and wrong appear matters of indifference, and<lb/>truth and falsehood indistinguishable. He must at any<lb/> <note>rate</note><lb/><pb/> | ||
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there is at any rate. In the first place it is by
no means certain will indeed sometimes happen,
but it will not happen always that the judgment
shall be gained over by the bias thus applied
to the affection: as often as the negative is the
case the persons now in question will be in
the same case as the persons spoken of before.
Let even the affirmative be the case take place
the case will not be free from mischief. A man
in the formation whose belief, if belief it can
be called, fear has any, be it ever so small a
share, is never easy: if he believes at one moment he is continually afraid of
not believing the next . Nor is it for nothing that he purchases
this his precarious repose: an enfeebled understanding
is the price he pays for it: an an a right judgment just discern
and an unclouded apprehension and a just
discernment he has must have learnt to look upon as attainment
to be dreaded: he must have his [mind] judgment rendered a sort
not of obsequious faculty his mind the whole system of his mental faculties he must have beenreduced
to that state of obsequious indifference imbecility in which right
a [truth and falsehood appear alike plausible undistinguishable , and]
right and wrong appear matters of indifference, and
truth and falsehood indistinguishable. He must at any
rate
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