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is absolutely essential to any thing like a right estimate of
conduct or character. And of showing the subserviency of opinion
to interest he demonstrated not only that the opinions publicly
advocated were subservient, but those privately & even clandestinely
formed — His list of the causes of misconduct especially in
public men is as profoundly philosophical, — as it is sagaciously
observant. sinister interest — interest-begotten prejudice —
authority-begotten prejudice — & primæval or inbred weakness —
in these he saw, — & in these all men may see the sources
of human infirmity.
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