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July 1810. 9
Fallacies. B.II. Eitherside. Part VIII. — to the judicial faculty
Ch. 2. Partiality-Preachers
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1. Partiality Preachers
device.
I. Exposition.
Against use to argue
from abuse is a practice
that has been placed
upon the list of fallacies.
p.1.
2 or 1.
II. Exposure.
Make the best of it
the aphorism is absurd
the absurdity will depend
upon the turn given
to the sentence
p.1.
3 or 2.
Be the turn what it
may, one simple
explanation may serve
for the exposure of it.
p.1.
4 or 3.
To good effects (of the
institution) corresponds
the use: to bad effect
the abuses: viz experience
past, or expects
future.
p.1.
5 or 4.
Two senses of which the
aphorism is susceptible.
1. In the account of the
effects of the institution
in question set down all
the good omitt all the bad.
2. Thereby from the
from the existence of bad
effects conclude not that
the mass composed of them
is greater than that of
the good ones.
p.2.
6 or 5
As an instruction this
can not be of use: as
warning possibly yes:
but very minute. p.2.
7 or 6
As who should say —
From a mans having
some debts conclude not
that he has no property
— no assets.
p.2.
8 or 7
Sole occasion recollected,
religion: on which all
is fair so it be on one
side.
p.3.
9 or 8
Not probable that any
thing so silly should
have been said as —
Religion has had some
bad effects — ergo it is
bad upon the whole.
p.3.
10 or 9
Not improbable that to
some eyes the mass of
bad effects has appeared
the greatest.
p.3
11 or 10
To the broacher of this
aphorism as applied to
religion it must have
appeared either that
the bad effects are really
preponderant, or that
they are generally thought
to be so.
p.3.
12 or 11.
In this last opinion is
involved contempt of
mankind in general.
Left free they would
destroy themselves:
therefore I & mine
must shackle them.
p4.
13. or 12.
Device employed to
clear the account of
bad effects: another
fictitious entity viz.
Superstition or False
Religion or Enthusiasm
employed as a Scape Goat.
p.4.
14. or 13.
As to any fair account
of profit & loss in this
shape that one may
have been taken is
not improbable secus
that it should be published
it would be at libel (especially under
a Jury, packed in the
mode avowed by Ch.
Baron Macdonal) conviction
of course. p.4.
15 or 14
Memento — the account
fair, the influence of
all the co-operating
sanctions will be included
in it. p.5.
16 or 15.
For but starting
the idea of a fair account
on this most important
subject of
account, sure is the
enmity of all those
who while they
purposely avoid to
take any account,
keep declaring the
ballance of an
account which
they would never
suffer to be taken,
and to whom truth
is odious in proportion
as it is important
— justice on
their principles consisting
in refusing to
hear evidence or argument
but upon one
side.
p.5.
17 or 16.
Religion apart, in
every other question
hearing evidence & argument
on both sides
alike will be admitted
to be the most promising
course for coming at
the truth.
p.5.
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