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Indirect Legislation
rate have blunted rooted out and destroyd eradicated those refined nice native
perceptions by which the [as yet] unbiassed mind
is is put upon it's guard against the first approach of .
He must be habituated ar and practiced in all the arts
of judging ill: he must have acquired a readiness of rejecting evidence without reason,
of in giving an undue weight to evidence of in determining against evidence, of in only on one
side: in a word he must have made himself a
wat weak man in order to avoid being an unhappy
one.
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— by reman
methods
—by temporal rewards
1. it is expensive
2. By It producesing falsehood as when
penal methods are
employ'd
3. Which defense
the character were.
Lastly, if instead of punishment reward is employd
to enforce the reception of an article of faith
the shape of the mischief is alter'd indeed, but the mischief itself is not removed. In
the first place to apply reward to all all who
comply without distinction has been shewn to be impossible:
in the essence of it it can never be bestow'd but upon a on a few.
It may be bestowd upon those few who are employ'd
to teach, but it can never be bestowd upon the many
who are required to believe. In the next place reward
is coupled with hardship in its very essence: to find
reward for one man you must impose hardship
on another, just as in order to give one man a right you
must impose on another man a duty. Let it come
in what shape it will, in that of wealth, in that of
honour in that of privilege, to give to you must
take from Paul before you can give to Peter. [Upon
the
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