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1819 Aug. 18
Fallacies

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Whatever is done by in and by government, is
done under some form: form may without impropriety
impropriety be ascribed to it in speaking of it. But A
eulogy on forms if it in general has any object at all, there can
not therefore be any but have this object, namely to d
produce deception. For to say you ought to approve of all
good form or of the application of all well applied forms — is to
say something and mean nothing: it is as much as to say
you ought to approve of what you ought to approve of. Its meaning
and object if it has any is therefore to dispose and cause men to approve
of to bestow their approbation upon bad forms or badly applied
ones: and to say of the Constitution that it can not be preserved
but by attention to forms is to say that it can not be preserved
but by attention to bad forms or badly applied ones by attention: yes and which is the
by adherence same thing as to say by adherence too: for without adherence, attention would be of no
effect or use.

What is That which, in Government, in Law, in
the Constitution, in English Institutions, in Forms, in Religion
is good, if you mean honestly sincerely you will applaud and defend because it is
good and so far as it is good, and no further: but if that
which is in Government you applaud and defend only because
it is in Government, that which is a law only because it
is in Law, that which is in the Constitution only because it
is in the Constitution, that which is in English Institutions
only because it is in English Institutions and that which
is in religion only because it is in Religion, your object plainly
is under the shelter of that which is good in each to defend
what is bad in each, and so to impose upon men as to
cause them to approve of it what is bad.

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Date_1	1819-08-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	301	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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