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1 Aug. 1809 1 B.I[...?] B. I 1 Generalia
1 Aug. 1809 1

B.I[...?] B. I 1 Generalia

Ch. 5 Generalia

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. 1. Use of this work

Ch. 1. of Political Fallacies in general.

'. 1. Use of this work - Uses derivable from the exposure of the fallacies here brought to view.

But for the uses expected from it this little work would never have been undertaken: these uses are comprizable within a short compass. Service rendered to the general welfare /well-being of the community in general/ - to general happi to general utility, to truth in so far as the knowledge of it is subservient to general utility: the adoption of useful measures in general - of useful measures as such, promoted and probabilzed the adoption of pernicious ones opposed and obstructed and disprobablized.

Fallacies are instruments of persuasion in a peculiar degree adapted to the promotion of pernicious purposes /wrong ans[?]/ as such of whatever nature or description they be.

The service rendered in this line - should it so happen that in this line any service should prove to be rendered will have in place no other limits than those of the habitable earth - in place no other limits than the duration of it in a habitable state.
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