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July 1810 Hatchet for Paley's Net Fallacies? Non Informed in Fallacies
Condition against his interest lawyers is not thus
incredible. Ex.gr. describing
Case of the findness of Lawyers capitally punishing laws
coupled withcounteracted with almost constant pardons. Professional sinister
interest served by it. 1. By familiarizing the people with the
exercise of arbitrary power. 2. with habitual courses of insincerity in the past of their rules.
True it is , that supposing a casean instance brought to
view in which, on a question of legislation, the interest
of the fraternity of lawyers lyingprinting manifestly
one way, the opinion of this is that lawyer is
seen printing the opposite way, the fallacious tendency
of the argument from authority could notmay in
but in this case experience considerable diminutionthis case be with propriety considered as being in a considerable
degree diminished
Take for instance a case which not long
ago was seen to exemplified. receive it exemplification
Amongst other pointsfeatures<add>characters</add> of depravity which it
is the interest of the fraternity to maintain in the texture
of the law is this: viz. that the lives of the other
members of this community should to as great an extent
as possible be placed at the arbitrary disposal of
such of them as are placed raised. into<add>stationed</add> in the situation of Judges
Were indeed the case such that the highes classesranks of the
community, those to which the numbers bearing a
part in legislation, they and their associates, belong,
weresho could consider themselves as exposed to any
danger from this tyranny it would not be endured.
It would not be endured, for example, if
those whose depredations takes the publicfor their subject matter properly
for this subject matter, and the peculation forthe crime of peculation
for the form shape in which they actmanifest themselves<add>increase</add> were involved.
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