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Fallacies 1 ad verecundum
Ch. Ancestor-worship
§. True sources of wisdom
from Ancestors

1 1

The wisdom of our Ancestors is the wisdom of the cradle
As to what they did in legislature, it is not fit to serve as a guide
without consideration of its consequences the presumption would be rather
against its fitness

Fitness of Ancestor wisdom viz their rulers to serve as a guide will depend on do
probity. But in probity they are our inferior as well as in wisdom
Distinction between bad and good laws, scarce apposite, since even
inglorious seems glorious. But the most glorious amongst the worst: the Borough

or 1
Though the opinions of
our Ancestors are, as
such, worth less than
ours, their practice is
not the less worth attending
to: viz in
so far as their practice
forms part of
our own experience.

What? are we to live and talk then — just as if
we had never had any Ancestors? nothing every thing that was ever
thought by them — nothing every thing that was ever done by them
is nothing that it to be passed by put aside for on every occasion
passed by by put aside — as not worth notice?

Oh Oh no By no means: what our Ancestors did what
Our Ancestors suffered, as we suffer; their practice of our
Ancestors forms part of our own experience: their practice, including whatsoever all that
they suffered, and in with a certain sense a great part of
what they did.

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But it is not as
much from what they did
as from what they suffered underwent
(good included
as well as evil)
that our instruction
comes.

or 3
Independently of
consequences, what
they did is no more
than evidence of what
they thought.

or 4
Nor yet in legislation
is it evidence
of what they thought
best: viz. for
the whole community:
only of what the rulers
thought would be best
for themselves.

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Date_1	1811-06-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 13
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