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<head>1819 Aug, 27<lb/> | |||
Fallacies</head> | |||
<note>Logical High-fliers<lb/> | |||
King can do no wrong</note> | |||
<p>1</p> | |||
<p>In <add>By</add> this notion of the Kings never acting but by advice<lb/> | |||
another position <add>fallacy</add> is involved <add>assumed</add>. This is — that in this situation<lb/> | |||
a man is <del>always</del> on every occasion disposed to do<lb/> | |||
what in his eyes is in the highest degree conducive <add>beneficial</add><lb/> | |||
to the universal interest, in preferring to every narrower<lb/> | |||
interest his own personal interest included: <del>But Now unfor<gap/></del><lb/> | |||
that therefore his disposition accordingly is to act<lb/> | |||
according to such advice as shall be in that same degree<lb/> | |||
conducive to that same end. But <add>Now</add> unfortunately <del>as</del> this<lb/> | |||
<del><gap/></del> position is never in any one instance <del><gap/></del> conformable<lb/> | |||
to truth <add>the real state of things:</add> <del><gap/></del> In no situation is a man ever<lb/> | |||
disposed to make any such sacrifice: and if <del>there <gap/> <add><gap/> <gap/></add></del> in<lb/> | |||
any <add>such</add> situation <del>any such disposition</del> <add>as hath been seen</add> this is the<lb/> | |||
very last in which any such disposition could have place.<lb/> | |||
Suppose <add>Grant</add> indeed that in any given instance this generous disposition<lb/> | |||
had place, on this supposition, on finding that <del><gap/></del><lb/> | |||
in the instance of <add>of this or that advice given him</add> the Monarch of the day, either through<lb/> | |||
want of probity the advice <del>was</del> had been directed to an <add>the</add> improper<lb/> | |||
end, or through <del><gap/></del> deficiency in intellectual aptitude<lb/> | |||
had failed of being <del><gap/></del> adequately adapted <add>not been well-adapted</add> to that end<lb/> | |||
the disposition of the Monarch would be to dismiss that<lb/> | |||
Minister and look out for some such other as should in<lb/> | |||
the highest degree be <add>as above</add> well disposed and well-qualified.<lb/> | |||
But in point of fact <add>on the part of the Monarch</add> there never being any such <add>laudable</add> disposition,<lb/> | |||
the consequence is that by the circumstance of his thus<lb/> | |||
acting no <add>never acting any</add> otherwise than by advice, no advantage to the<lb/> | |||
universal interest is ever <add>can ever be</add> produced. <add>All</add> Good advice would <del><gap/></del> as<lb/> | |||
every Minister must be be to a certainty lost to him <del><gap/></del> no s<gap/><lb/> | |||
therefore will ever be given to him: the change will on every <add>at all time</add><lb/> | |||
<add>occasion</add><lb/> | |||
<note>occasion be form one<lb/> | |||
<del>bad</del> giver of bad advice<lb/> | |||
to another & never from<lb/> | |||
a giver of bad to a giver<lb/> | |||
of good advice.</note></p> | |||
1819 Aug, 27
Fallacies
Logical High-fliers
King can do no wrong
1
In By this notion of the Kings never acting but by advice
another position fallacy is involved assumed. This is — that in this situation
a man is always on every occasion disposed to do
what in his eyes is in the highest degree conducive beneficial
to the universal interest, in preferring to every narrower
interest his own personal interest included: But Now unfor
that therefore his disposition accordingly is to act
according to such advice as shall be in that same degree
conducive to that same end. But Now unfortunately as this
position is never in any one instance conformable
to truth the real state of things: In no situation is a man ever
disposed to make any such sacrifice: and if there in
any such situation any such disposition as hath been seen this is the
very last in which any such disposition could have place.
Suppose Grant indeed that in any given instance this generous disposition
had place, on this supposition, on finding that
in the instance of of this or that advice given him the Monarch of the day, either through
want of probity the advice was had been directed to an the improper
end, or through deficiency in intellectual aptitude
had failed of being adequately adapted not been well-adapted to that end
the disposition of the Monarch would be to dismiss that
Minister and look out for some such other as should in
the highest degree be as above well disposed and well-qualified.
But in point of fact on the part of the Monarch there never being any such laudable disposition,
the consequence is that by the circumstance of his thus
acting no never acting any otherwise than by advice, no advantage to the
universal interest is ever can ever be produced. All Good advice would as
every Minister must be be to a certainty lost to him no s
therefore will ever be given to him: the change will on every at all time
occasion
occasion be form one
bad giver of bad advice
to another & never from
a giver of bad to a giver
of good advice.
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