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July 1810 1810 July 1 + B +
Fallacies Fallacies
Ch Impracticability-criers
§.1. Exposition & Exposure
of a good
8 or 1
State of things
in which the art
of defence against
Ability and Reason
Virtue and Wisdom —
is brought to its highest
degree of perfection —
when fallacies
such as these found
ready utterance and general
acceptance.
On the part of the
utterers the maximum
of effrontery
or depravity, on
the part of acceptors,
do of imbecillity.
When once things are come to this have been brought to such a pass, [the art
of warring making war carrying on of war as carried on against Reason and General Utility has
arrive] as that man should be found on the one
hand to give utterance to such arguments one argument of this complexion
and on the other hand to give acceptance to it,
the art of war defence as against the principle of General Utility and
Reason has been brought to the highest state degree of perfection
of which so far as depends upon fallacies
upon the sinister influence of understanding upon
understanding and without the aid of from the sinister
influence of will on will, it is susceptible.
On the one part effrontery audacity in the service of depravity improbity,
on the other imbecillity, have been wrought up
to the highest pitch.
9 or 2
Now may right
and wrong be
compleatly confounded
and rendered indistinguishable.
Logic — the plan
is good, ergo bad.
Now is the time when good and bad, right
and wrong may be compleatly confounded and
in the minds of the thoughtless and prejudiced and deluded many
multitude vulgar of all ranks rendered effectually and indistinguishable. Now
is the time when this an argument in this form
is good logic — To all appearance the plan is The plan appears to be
There is sufficient reason for concluding the plan to be a good one, therefore it is a bad one.
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