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8 Nov
Church
I Anti-Topics
Ch Anterior Practice
§ Improper Use
6
2 But from its having
been established, the conclusion
of its having been
even then, beneficial, is
weak indeed. p.3
7
The interest of the establishing
few, the cause
of whatsoever is established
—
This influence interest may
or may not have been
checked by the influence
of the many —
If not, their interest
will have been neglected —
If yes — their influence
may have modified it
more or less salutarily.
p.3
8
The earlier the period,
the less likely the conduct
suggested by the
interested few, to have
been beneficially modified
by the many.
p.3
9
Experience the mother
of wisdom — The earlier
the time, the smaller
cæteris paribus the
stock of experience.
p.3
10
For want of wisdom
the earlier the time
the more probable that
the measure did not
ever produce any good the effect
intended by the few.
p.3
11
Also that the subject many
possessed no such intelligence
as would enable
them to reduce to conformity
to their own interest
the measures suggested
by the few. p.4.
§ Improper Use
12
Cæteris paribus interest
— because whatever
distance from
this time — stock of intelligence
depends much on
form of government.
Monarchy being the
simplest has less difficulties
to contend with —
hence less need of intelligence.
A Monarchy such as
Chinese, in 2000 years
would amass less experience
than Aristocracies
& Democracies in
Greece in 200. p.4
§.3 Origin
13
To absurd perversion
of words is the argument
from antiquity of practice
indebted for its
force — p.5
14
Taken individually, a
man has more experience
thence wisdom in his
old age than in his youth.
The former times in which
those who now are old
lived — may from them
by figure of speech be
called, old time
The days of my father
now an old man may
be called his days, or the
days of old — my grandfather
was older than
my father — but the
older the men, the wiser
— therefore the older the
times, — i.e. the times of
the oldr men, the wiser.
p.5.
§ Improper Use
15
This the language &
conclusion of sentiment
and rhetoric. p.6
16
Secus common sense, &
experience. p.6
17
Experience the mother
of wisdom. The later
the time the more the
experience which at
least, ought to might have been
received. p.6
18
Now my father & I being
living, my father (faculties
&c being equal) is
wiser than I am — But
if I reach his age, I shall
be wiser than he is at
present, having all my
own, in addition to his
experience, so hi he in
relation to his father &
so on. p.6
19
Such the language of
common sense — but
Common Sense is the
possession of the multitude
— Eloquence of the few —
By those who if they can
be admired, care not how
they deceive,[1] eloquence is
envied — common sense
comparatively speaking
contemned. p.6
20
The delusion further
strengthened by another
of weakness in judgment
& strength in imagination.
p.7
21
Any source of enjoyment
sinks in value the more
we are acquainted with
it. The less we know, the
more it rises in value with
the unthinking. The more
distant the time the
less we know therefore
the more we prize it.
p.7.
§ Improper Use
22
Omne ignotum pro
magnifico est — it
might be added — quo
antiquius ignotus —
inide quo antiquius
io magnificentius.
p7
23.
Thus, giving way to
imagination in preference
to judgment
they deceive themselves
to qualify themselves
for deceiving others.
p.7
If in this prepossession
in favour of anterior times
there were a grain of reason,
savage life ought to be taken
as a model for present conduct.
No stage at which
there can be reason for
its stopping. The conduct
of the aborigines of N. S. Wales
ought to be the model for that
of the people of Great Britain
[1] or who, looking for profit
from deceit, wish to deceive,
Thus a most pernicious
and fanciful principle of error in
conduct is propagated
and in a manner forced
into man's hearts and heads,
by an impropriety in
language — by the use of an improper
epithet, in which an
erroneous and
assertion is involved.
Use made of the argument from anterior
practice i.e. Custom by in support of
abuse. Knaves and fools both
interested in making the most of
it. Both enemies to Reason.
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