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1810 July 23. + 1 Fallacies B.2 Pt. 8 Ch. 6 Sect 4 Ch. Cause and §.3 Virtue Universities
If perjury and suborn. be these are the most of : others but occasionally these
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Effect, and probable object of their perjury- -compelling system, reducing men's minds to that state of ullity, in which any repose an implies faith in the pretended opinions governed by Continued below marginal addition inserted below the sinister interest of these their treacherous guides.
Thus, monitors have not more negligence and indifference for their cause: they have for their effect at least if not for their object, they have the establishment of a disposition of the most debasing and pernicious nature
12 Thus, being independent of the good or evil conduct of these their rulers, their attachment may serve to their support against all accusations how just soever.
It is the interest of every despot, that of those of every man in power, who has nothing but his power to trust to as a security for use the habits of obedience by which it is instituted, has nothing but his power to trust to but his power — it is his interest that of those over whom his dominion exercises itself whom he holds under his yoke the understandings may be in the for ever in the a state of the utmost inbecillity and depravation possible: that their notions of right and wrong being in a state of the most perfect confusion, they may with the most abject and unreflecting and undiscriminating obsequiousness take the prof for the measure of their obedience what is the pretended professed and pretended whatsoever is in pretence the opinion and but in reality only the will, as determined by the sinister interest of their rulers I that thuse whatsoever is practised the self-same conduct shall be deemed held for right or for wrong or for tight according to the manner in which the interest of these rulers is affected by it: that thus, their attachment to their rulers being independent of the good or ill conduct, of the good or ill desert of those same such their rulers, may at all times on every occasion at all times and in despite of any the justest accusations as were to them the same effectual support.
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