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1819 Aug. 24
Fallacies
Preface
7 7
§. Offer to disapprovers
To the circulation of any such censure as would not
otherwise see the light, it might be in my power to be contributory;
namely by adding subjoining it to my own to this work of
mine if which by the supposition it would have for its subject.
An To give this sort of reception to any mass of
matter without regard either to quantity or quality will not
be expected. But supposing that, in bulk, comparison has
with this work of mine it do not exceed one third, if either
in respect on the score of merit without regard to name, or if desired on the
score of name without regard to merit it shall in my
eyes appear to have a claim to regard from the public eye
I will in any and every future addition cause the whole
or an abstract of it to be subjoined.
So likewise, in the event of the publication of any
separate work of the nature in question having this for its object, I will make some
mention of it, and at any rate, thus give in this way indication
of its existence.
As to the sentence in which it is written, this, though
it should in ever so high a degree be hostile, will in not
contribute in any degree towards the supposition any with the
is endeavour or so much as a wish on my part for the
suppression of it. If the author will be at the pains of picking
out and sending to me a list of what to him appears the
severest passages, mention of them shall be made by me —
if not by reprinting, at any rate by reference, should there
be any thing in them that whether in the way of injustice to myself
or in any other way is improper, it is not at my door that the reproach will be
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