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1819 Aug. 14
Fallacies
Ch. Logical High-fliers
1. Purveyors
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The manufacture of money is a manufacture that
can may be carried on with dispatch, and with full effect by Kings the ruling few: for by destroying
or driving into hiding places all money but that of their
own manufacture they may force the people to take it or
have none. The manufacture of words appellatives is a manufacture
that can not be carried on with full effect otherwise than
by the subject many, and with a degree of disp slowness
corresponding to the largeness of the numbers that must bear of the consecutive acts necessary to
a part in it coupled with the fness paucity and of
the occasions on which the produce comes to be employed
the formation establishment of a free custom. What belongs to is material to To the present purpose is
what the practice of the device: what does is not material
is the success of it. Whether In what proportion in speaking of the official
persons in question the quantity of their unofficial ones persons cotemporaries
continued to call them by the old and vulgar name, or
whether they accepted and passed the in lieu of it the name
appointed by Act of Parliament must be left to conjecture
as likewise in what degree a man who had his goods taken
from him for whatever the taker chose to give felt satisfied by being told
that the takers official name was no longer purveyor but buyer
or caterer. that the by being told that he was now to
say caterer where he had been used to say purveyor.
What the device consists in is a mans seeking,
in a name of larger extent, concealment for the true
nature of an object of which whether it had become his desire and endeavour
wish to plant establish a false conception, whether too favourable or too unfavourable unfavourable or too favourable in the public mind.
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