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1819 Aug. 9
Fallacies Preface or Generalia

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§. Causes of coining: utterance
& acceptance

Sinister interest &c.
co-exist in infinitely
diversifiable and
unperceived proportions
To decompose their
own minds into
two observing
one another, is the
lot of few.

Of all the several distinguishable causes of misjudgment,
misdiscourse and misconduct there is not one
the existence of which is not compatible with that of all
the others in the same receptacle: the proportion
in which they thus exist have place in each others' company
are moreover infinitely variable diversifiable: nor
is it by any means necessary that by the mind
by in which they exist and are productive of these effects
this existence — the place they occupy it, and is the
influence they exercise in it should be matter of observation.
To decompose their own minds — to resolve
them into two as it were distinct ones either one of what
which is occupied in the making observations on the other,
is a process, on which to him the relish for which, and
consequently the habit of carrying on which is
the lot of very few.

Of Those who are governed exclusively by sinister
interest there are two distinguishable classses: 1. those
to whom it has never occurred to make pretension to
any social feeling upon any enlarged scale
conscious of the main spring not to say the only one by
which they are moved,
[+] with the exception
of social feeling
upon a small narrow
scale, and antisocial
upon an
a scale of every
variety of extent,
it would seem to these an idle
task to look out for any other.

A task from which neither pleasure nor profit
neither immediate nor remote good is looked for, will not
be voluntary undertaken, and of this sort, in the eyes
of all but a few will naturally and at all times be
the task of task of observation and scouting as applied to a man's man's
own mind.

Much smaller than the number of those who are the object of whose study is
conversant with the anatomy of the body is that of those the
object
object of whose study
is the anatomy and physiology of the
mind

Identifier: | JB/104/089/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1819-08-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	089	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [with prince of wales feathers above] 1818]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	34060
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