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1821 March 19 4
Fallacies

Ch. Opposer General

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What then is at the bottom of this aphorism? What is the course
of political conduct for which it is the object to present a justification?
To attack bad measures? No: this is what men are on
all occasions sufficiently apt and disposed to do, meaning always
such measures as relation had to their own particular
interests are bad for that same interest. To attack measures
that are bad for the universal interest? No: to dispose
men to profess to do this is a labour altogether superfluous: they
are sufficiently disposed already are perfectly disposed that
way as it is in the power of words to cause them to be.

Well then what other possible sense remains to it?
What but this namely that, for the purpose of ridding
the establishment government of bad men, good men ought to attack
their measures not only in the instances in which those
measures are bad, but also in the instances in which
their measures are bad, that is to say that for the
purpose of directing engaging the force of public opinion against these alledged
bad men, whatsoever good measures they advocate, are
by all possible means to be represented as bad ones
the people at large are as far as possible and by all
means possible to be induced to look upon them as
bad ones.

Identifier: | JB/104/325/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1821-03-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	325	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	34296
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