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12 July 1810
Fallacies

Ch. Ins employ most

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Preferable object of
attack, not what is
most pernicious, but
what is most unpopular.

On this occasion the ground naturally looked out for in preference
is not that which is composed — not of such as the ground
on which the attack shall be made carried on is of course
not that sort of conduct which is most pernicious
but that which is most unpopular.

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Advantages from
preferring for attack
individual transgressions
1. Better Chance of expelling
Ins
2. Popularity, notwithstanding
backers
3. System of abuses
left untouched

Attacks An attack on individuals for grounded on the supposed transgressions
of individuals have this double advantage: two three advantages: if successful they
it promise to the assailants a better chance of expelling for driving
the adversary out of his situation position — 2. even
if unsuccessful, it affords a promise better prospect of greater
popularity (the mass of the people being scarcely capable of
feeling a degree of interest strong enough to produce
without the benefit assistance of some individual object person
to on which to attach it.) and 3. it leaves untouched
the stock of the system itself with abuse and imperfection out of which
a large a part of the reward for the necessary exertions is to come.

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Imperfection untouched,
unless it
may bear the name
of abuse: i.e. reflect
reproach on the
upholders.

For this same reason, the imperfection must
to qualify it for being attacked, be of that sort such as will bear the name of abuse.
For it is only in so far as it is deemed susceptible of
that denomination appellation, that imputation can by in
means virtue of it any imperfection be cast on an individual, and then in
the breast of the people those sympathies and antipathies excited on which
the chance of expelling the delinquents in whose
conduct the cause of the mischief is looked for is
understood to depend.

Identifier: | JB/104/338/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1810-07-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	10-12
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	338	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	peregrine bingham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	34309
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