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<head>1819 Aug. 17<lb/> | |||
Fallacies</head> | |||
<note>Forms</note> | |||
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<p>4 Forms.</p> | |||
<note>Forms</note> | |||
<p>Forms. Another very convenient cloak for abuse<lb/> | |||
and misgovernment — for foul spots of all sorts and sizes —<lb/> | |||
is presented by the word <hi rend="underline">forms</hi> — by the nebulosity of the <add>: a very paragon of nebulosity.</add><lb/> | |||
word <hi rend="underline">forms</hi>.</p> | |||
<p>By <hi rend="underline">forms</hi> are meant either operation [of government]<lb/> | |||
or instruments [of government] meaning written instru<lb/> | |||
<del>-ments:</del> <add>-ments, produced by correspondent operations:</add> the living instruments of government — the members<lb/> | |||
of the appropriate part of the Official establishment — being,<lb/> | |||
<del>the operators</del> in both cases, the operators.</p> | |||
<p>Now among these operations, productive or not, <add>some productive, some not</add><lb/> | |||
of correspondent instruments, there have doubtless been<lb/> | |||
some good: <del>and of</del> <add>but moreover, unless</add> the official persons in question have<lb/> | |||
<del>not</del> been absolutely infallible and impeccable, some<lb/> | |||
bad. It is required to reconcile men to the bad:<lb/> | |||
to cause them to be regarded as good: this is the problem:<lb/> | |||
how shall this problem <add>it</add> be solved?</p> | |||
<p>Take the individual operation itself, and apply <del><gap/></del><lb/> | |||
laud to it, the danger is that the laud will not stick:<lb/> | |||
and the more palpably undeserving of laud the operation<lb/> | |||
is — <del>in other words</del> the more palpably deserving<lb/> | |||
of reproach <del>in a word</del> the more palpably mischievous<lb/> | |||
— the greater the difficulty of making <add>getting</add> it to stick.</p> | |||
1819 Aug. 17
Fallacies
Forms
1
4 Forms.
Forms
Forms. Another very convenient cloak for abuse
and misgovernment — for foul spots of all sorts and sizes —
is presented by the word forms — by the nebulosity of the : a very paragon of nebulosity.
word forms.
By forms are meant either operation [of government]
or instruments [of government] meaning written instru
-ments: -ments, produced by correspondent operations: the living instruments of government — the members
of the appropriate part of the Official establishment — being,
the operators in both cases, the operators.
Now among these operations, productive or not, some productive, some not
of correspondent instruments, there have doubtless been
some good: and of but moreover, unless the official persons in question have
not been absolutely infallible and impeccable, some
bad. It is required to reconcile men to the bad:
to cause them to be regarded as good: this is the problem:
how shall this problem it be solved?
Take the individual operation itself, and apply
laud to it, the danger is that the laud will not stick:
and the more palpably undeserving of laud the operation
is — in other words the more palpably deserving
of reproach in a word the more palpably mischievous
— the greater the difficulty of making getting it to stick.
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