...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,...

...the populace. And in the end the civil magistrate will find . . . that in reality the most decent and advantageous composition, which he can make with the...spiritual guides, is to bribe their indolence, by affixing stated salaries to their profession. (Hume 1759, 1:117) Opportunism and lncentives to Effort...

...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...

...civil authority. He concludes that the civil magistrate will find that "in reality the most decent and advantageous composition, which he can make with the...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...

...will find that "in reality the most decent and advantageous composition, which he can make with d1e spiritual guides, is to bribe their indolence, by...rendering it superfluous for them to be farther active, d1an merely to prevent d1eir flock from straying in quest of new pastures" (H1, xx1x, 552-553). It...

...frugality, in saving a fixed establishment for the priests; and that in reality the most decent and advantageous composition, which he can make with the...prevent their flock from straying in quest of new pastures.338 An ecclesiastical establishment is thus advantageous to society because it is the means...

...hrihe their [the clergy's] indolence, by assigning stated salaries to their profession, and rendering k superfluous for them to be farther active, than merely...their flock from straying in quest of new pastures. i D. HUME, HISTORY OF ENGLANO, ch. z9, at 931-933 (1831); i« also D. HUME, idea of a Perfect Commonwealth,...

...frugality, in saving a fixed establishment for the priests; and that in reality the most decent and advantageous composition, which he can make with the...arose at first from religious views, prove in the end advantageous to the political interests of society.160 We find that religious toleration, in Hume's...

...social disorder will inevitably follow. The only remedy is 'to bribe the indolence [of the preachers], by assigning stated salaries to their profession,...prevent their flock from straying in quest of new pastures.'75 Hume thinks that, in a civilized society, many forms of religious belief are merely hold-overs...

...frugality, in saving a fixed establishment for the priests; and that, in reality, the most decent and n England, * settlements. I shall conclude this...wages, first by general laws extending over the pastors. And in this manner ecclesiastical establishments, though commonly they arose at first from...