2. A forwardness to dictate another's beliefs, from whence.
The assuming an authority of dictating to others, and a
forwardness to prescribe to their opinions, is a constant concomitant of this bias and corruption of our judgments.
For how almost can it be otherwise, but that he should be ready to impose on another's belief, who has already
imposed on his own? Who can reasonably expect arguments and conviction from him in dealing with others,
whose understanding is not accustomed to them in his dealing with himself? Who does violence to his own
faculties, tyrannizes over his own mind, and usurps the prerogative that belongs to truth alone, which is to
command assent by only its own authority, i.e., by and in proportion to that evidence which it carries with it.
