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<head>1821 March 19 4<lb/> | |||
Fallacies</head> | |||
<note>Ch. Opposer General</note> | |||
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<p>What then is at the bottom of this aphorism? What is the course<lb/> | |||
of political conduct <add>for</add> which it is the object to present a justification?<lb/> | |||
To attack bad measures? No: this is what men are on<lb/> | |||
all occasions sufficiently apt and disposed to do, meaning always<lb/> | |||
such measures as relation had to their own particular<lb/> | |||
interests are bad for that same interest. To attack measures<lb/> | |||
that are bad for the universal interest? No: to dispose<lb/> | |||
men to profess to do this is <add>a labour</add> altogether superfluous: they<lb/> | |||
are <del>sufficiently disposed</del> already are perfectly disposed that<lb/> | |||
way as it is in the power of words to cause them to be.</p> | |||
<p>Well then what other possible since <unclear>rumours</unclear> to it?<lb/> | |||
What but this namely that, for the purpose of ridding<lb/> | |||
the establishment <add>government</add> of bad men, good men ought to attack<lb/> | |||
their measures not only in the instances in which those<lb/> | |||
measures are bad, but also in the instances in which<lb/> | |||
their measures are bad, <unclear>thence</unclear> to <unclear>say</unclear> that for the<lb/> | |||
purpose of directing <add>engaging the force of</add> public opinion against these <sic>alledged</sic><lb/> | |||
bad men, whatsoever good measures they advocate, are<lb/> | |||
by all possible means to be represented as bad ones<lb/> | |||
the people at large are as far as possible and by all<lb/> | |||
means possible to be induced to look upon them as<lb/> | |||
bad ones.</p> | |||
1821 March 19 4
Fallacies
Ch. Opposer General
4
What then is at the bottom of this aphorism? What is the course
of political conduct for which it is the object to present a justification?
To attack bad measures? No: this is what men are on
all occasions sufficiently apt and disposed to do, meaning always
such measures as relation had to their own particular
interests are bad for that same interest. To attack measures
that are bad for the universal interest? No: to dispose
men to profess to do this is a labour altogether superfluous: they
are sufficiently disposed already are perfectly disposed that
way as it is in the power of words to cause them to be.
Well then what other possible since rumours to it?
What but this namely that, for the purpose of ridding
the establishment government of bad men, good men ought to attack
their measures not only in the instances in which those
measures are bad, but also in the instances in which
their measures are bad, thence to say that for the
purpose of directing engaging the force of public opinion against these alledged
bad men, whatsoever good measures they advocate, are
by all possible means to be represented as bad ones
the people at large are as far as possible and by all
means possible to be induced to look upon them as
bad ones.
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