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12 June 1811 36
Fallacies
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Ch. Authority worshippers?
§.5. Prevalence Causes
— Emperor
7
15 or 8
Considitur: a
so-named independent
Member is not
necessarily ignorant
and weak. If by
accident a man
possessed of knowledge
and intelligence is
placed there, his seat
will not deprive him
of it.
Not that an ignorant man and a Member of the
House of Commons [or even a Member of the House of
Lords] are terms absolutely synonymous. If by
whatever accident a man so it be that a man has
been put in possession of any portion. An it ever so large, if
useful knowledge, be it ever so useful knowledge,
any such act as that of his stepping into his seat in the House
will divest him of it.
16 or 9
Nor school afterwards
even at the University,
though an Article-
-subscribing, a sincerity-
abjuring University,
of the sort of
learning a man
happens to have picked
up the which will
not have been either
mischievous or useless
Along with whatever
matter of corruption
is imbibed by the
moral, some useful
instruction will have
been imbibed by the
intellectual, part
of his frame.
A certain sort and measure of knowledge there is
nor that in the whole of it either mischievous or useless
the more or less considerable of which a man is put in possession of a by
being put to a school, great or little, public or private,
or even by being put entered if such be his misfortune
in an article-subscribing a sincerity-abjuring
English University. If in insincerity solemn
and persevering indelible insincerity there be any thing of moral corruption
if in this way his morals the moral part of his frame will to a certainty imbibe
a faint corruption, for the intellectual part there is always
some chance that knowledge, and even nor yet that knowledge
in every part of it either mischievous or useless, at the same time will be
imbibed also and notwithstanding.
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