...bribe their indolence, by assigning stated salaries to their profession, and rendering it super, fiuous for them to be farther active, than merely to prevent their flock from straying in quest of new pastors. And in this manner ecclesiastical establishments, though commonly they arose at first from...

...and credulity of the populace. And in the end the civil magistrate will find that he has paid dearly for his pretended frugality, in saving a fixed establishment...views, prove in the end advantageous to the political interests of society." An endowment in fact is desirable in order to render its beneficiaries indolent...

...composition, which he can " make with the spiritual guides, is to bribe their indolence, by assign" ing stated salaries to their profession, and rendering..."views, prove in the end advantageous to the political interests of " society." l Eit»biish- But whatever may have been the good or bad effects of the indepubiic...

...assigning stated salaries to their profession, and rendering it superfluous for them to be further active, than merely to prevent their flock from straying...views, prove in the end advantageous to the political interests of Society.' The sarcastic cynicism of Hume led him to propound a theory which, for all its...

...establishment for the priests; and that in reality the 1 [The original reads 'finances, armies, fleets'.] most decent and advantageous composition, which he...views, prove in the end advantageous to the political interests of society.1 Establishments and But whatever may have been the good or bad effects of the...

...which it is argued that the clergy ought to be on the public payroll 'to bribe their indolence', thus 'rendering it superfluous for them to be farther active,...their flock from straying in quest of new pastures'. To which Smith in effect answers that while this may be right in theory, in practice those who command...

...society .... IT]he civil magistrate [shouldl bribe their [the clergy'sl indolence, by assigning staled salaries to their profession, and rendering it superfluous...their flock from straying in quest of new pastures. i D. HUME, HISTORY OF ENGLAND, ch. 19, at 551-553 I1851l; «4 also D. HUME, Idea of a Perfect Commoxwtalth,...

...government should pay the salaries of the established clergy, "to bribe their indolence." Their function was "merely to prevent their flock from straying in quest of new pastures." 8 Struck by the religiously motivated strife in seventeenth-century England, Hume feared the zeal of...

...Catholic one is a dangerous rival to civil authority. He concludes that the civil magistrate will find that "in reality the most decent and advantageous...their flock from straying in quest of new pastures" (H 1, xx1x, 552-553). It would be left to a later generation of critics, notably William Hazlitt, to...

...new industry and address in practising on the passions and credulity of the populace. And in the end, the civil magistrate will find, that he has dearly...prevent their flock from straying in quest of new pastures.338 An ecclesiastical establishment is thus advantageous to society because it is the means...