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27 June 1810 3
Fallacies Ch. 2 Ancestor-worship
§.2 Experience

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Ancestor
Parents guide youth during life generally wiser, venerate
& respect & custom continues it

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Its prevalence limited
to legislation unless
religion be to be added.
Too absurd for refutation
— causes of its
prevalence sole remaining
task

The fallacy having bearing thus upon the face very front of it
this mask of absurdity, what remains if any — remains
necessary to its exposure is to bring to view the causes
to which it seems indebted for the degree of reception, and though happily
that happily but a limited one, which it has been seen to
meet with. For, unless religion be to be taken into
the account it is only in the field of law legislation that in
any country calling itself into which the printing
press has found its way, any man one will at this time
of day be turned to it.

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From momentary
incorrectness of conception
comes do
of expression,
from thence
incorrectness of conception
fixed.
Present
and future confounded,
as under
olim

From inaccuracy incorrectness of conception comes incorrectness
of expression: and as since by modes of expression once
established, conception on the part of the hearers is succeeding conceptions are
either produced or influenced: thus it is that error
from having been a momentary cause, comes to be a
permanent effect.

Language furnishes expressions by which the
past and the future and the past are capable of
being either of them indifferently expressed, and by
that means, with or without design, confounded.

Thus in Latin olim is employed sometimes
to designate sometimes that which it is supposed had
place a long time ago, sometimes that which it is
supposed will happen a long time hence.

Identifier: | JB/104/152/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1810-06-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-5
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	152	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections	peregrine bingham	Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	34123
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