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Avoid all arguments that you know like sophistical
think not that by shutting your own eyes against the weakness of
your statements that you have thereby shut the eyes of your hearer.
Your sophistry will but initiate, – for sophistry is not only uncandid
but dishonest. It is an attempt to cheat , not his purse but
his senses & his judgement. His aversion to you will be
awakened by the your attempt effort to shine at his expense, – &
his contempt will be roused for the folly that supposed
it was able to do so so to shine. In all argument be candid for the
sake of your comrade & for your own sake. The triumph
of an argument which is known & felt to be unfair & unfounded, is
a wretched exhibition of perversity. If successful, it
can serve no interests but those of fraud – If unsuccessful, it
brings with it the consequences of blundering & detected
dishonesty. Constituted as society is – with its errors & prejudices
to narrow interests, – & interested passions – the pursuit of
truth makes demands enough upon courageous virtue – for
he who goes one step beyond the line which the world's poor
conventions have drawn around moral & political questions – must
expect to meet with the thundering anathemas & obloquies of all who wish to stand well with the arbiters of opinion. Let
no searcher after truth be led into the labyrinths of sophistry.
The course would He will have enough to do in order to make
good his ground one step beyond that trodden by those who
dogmatise about decorum – & propriety – and right & wrong –


Identifier: | JB/015/428/001
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015

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deontology

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428a
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001

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linking material

Number of Pages

1

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recto

Page Numbering

f112

Penner

sir john bowring

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5644

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