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tripartite league , offensive and defensive ; they see the expediency of maintaining it unbroken , for the downfall of one ally would be ominous of the speedy destruction of the others . It will very likely be said that we have in the preceding remarks assumed a postulate to which we have no right : —i . e . that the three establishments mentioned are supported by
prejudice , or , that they are not founded in reason and the nature of things . But no ; our assertion was , that the term , prejudice applied to those who blindly supported those establishments , without understanding their nature , or calmly calculating their effects . To affirm or deny upon any subject , or to light for or against any cause we do not understand , and have not reasoned upon , is proof of prejudice .
We have said that the attachment of the clergy , as a body , to establishments , and their opposition to innovation was not prejudice , but foresight . The same remark will apply to all persons who directly , or indirectly , by their own situation or
by patronage , derive personal advantage from the existing state of things . In these persons , or such of them as have not sufficient virtue to renounce Mammon for principle , expressed opinion is not the result of prejudice , but of self-interest and policy , combined perhaps in some of them with a share of real
prejudice arising from education or circumstances . Prejudice and education mutually assist each other ; the former directs the method of the latter , and the latter perpetuates the former . By the tenacious grasp with which individuals retain the principles of their education , and their pertinacious adherence to party , sectarian and party prejudices #
are fostered and continued . When prejudices become strengthened by custom , and the example of the many ; when they are unanimously accepted by large bodies of men , time ancf the increase of knowledge are the only means of eradicating them . ^ -
Lord Bacon lias , somewhat quaintly , but with admirable philosophy , designated prejudices idols ; % considering that as truth is the only legitimate object for the worship of the mind , any deviation from the standard thereof is , philosophically speaking , idolatry .
These idols he * divides into four classes , under the following appellations—1 st . the idola trifpus ; 2 nd . the idola sjjecus ; 3 ra . the idola fori ; and 4 th . the idofa theatri . The first signifies prejudices to which every mind is more or less obnoxious ; niich as the proneness of men to be guided too
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S ? 2 Cursory Remarks on Prejudice .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/44/
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