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15 June 1811
Fallacies
They are the salamanders whose seat is in the fire of a
reverberating furnace and not a drop of perspiration
raised by it.
They are the Knights whose place of nightly repose
is by the Princess's side, and her virgin purity not
sullied by it.
They are the racers whose course is over the ripening
corn and not a strand so much as bent bent by it.
They are beings in whose favour all causes lose
their efficiency, all substances bodies and s well as all spirits change put off
their nature.
Fire will not burn scorch them, ice chill them, water
wet them, or wine inebriate them.
☞ La Human-Idol-worshipper's fallacy and
self- fallacy.
Such being the holders of power, what are the people
who are subject to it? Plunged in corruption, corrupt
from head to foot top to toe, groveling in the abyss of corruption,
without so much as a possibility of ever emerging from
it.
☞ See Universal corruption-pleader's argument.
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