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Click Here To Edit 28 Jan 1808 Evid. Prosp. Vicc Peines 3
Throughout the whole body of the constitution the disease
of arbitrary power with the harmful symptoms that accompany
it are thus diffused and kept in fact. The Jurymen,
Judges,the superior, the inferior Magistrate, Ins Magistrates the King andwith his advisors
each of these further functionaries is arbitrarya despot within his sphere
for reason is required for whither he hangsdestroys in sures: caprice
or corrupt interest institution hasfind the<add>a clear ground to range in</add> find an embted
rump.
To the wrongThere In this case as in others the vice of the The practice of despotism
despot finds its encouragement and support in the train
of adulators.
To do wrong is impossible to him & to escape from
praise is equally impossible. Two opposite praisesvirtues
count the choiceJustice and : one or other he case
not miss of.
on each occasion it rests with himself to counsel his
tasteconvenience or his, and adapt that which alutions to his purpose,
happens to be best adapted to his purpose.
In this state of things, everything is as it should be:
every thing is inwrapt in confusion: the life of man is made
the put either of chance, or of corrupt design
still worn them chance. Hypocrisy sits on every brow
and dislikepours forth from every life: every thing existsstands in the
most favourable state for thegiving dispelling and encouragementtriumph
of venal clergymenof mechanical sentimentality and venal clergymen.
To consideration they determined, would notcross and pile
would be a most advantageous substitute?
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