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1809 Aug 1 + ' . 4 6 Fallacies
1809 Aug 1 + '

. 4 6

Fallacies B. 7. Ins 1. Generalia

Ch. 1. Generalia

1

. 4.1. of the

Ins

Viz conservatory[?] it [...?] nature in the body politic martyrs viz conserving[?] it [...?] nature in the body natural Not graduant[?] [...?] real by or undone by being put into [...?] - but good for making impression on the [...?] [...?]

'. 4. Fallacies of the Ins - their general nature

On the part of the Ins as on the part of the Outs the demand for fallacies is constituted by the abuses /demand for fallacy is constituted by abuse/ that happen to have place in the government: and the urgency of the demand is proportioned /runs in proportion/ partly to the quantity of the article /mass thus requiring to be defended/, /and which require to be defended against its assaults and all assailants and all assaults/ partly to the quantity of the interest which men have in defence of it.

All governments since the invention of the press at least, all government have on the one hand a natural tendency to improvement /meloriation/: that is in all governments there are causes the tendency of which is to become productive of that desirable effect.

But all governments have also a natural tendency to pejoration to corruption: that is under all governments there exist causes operating in an opposite direction /acting in a direction opposite to that of the former/ causes the tendency of which is to become productive of that undesirable effect.

Happily the causes of meloriation are those of which the action will be found to be most steady and /constant - most/ uninterrupted, and in general upon the whole the strongest. similar in this[?] particular to the ordinary vital powers of vegetable and animal nature.

The causes of corruption /pejoration/ will be found to be but casual and accidental, coming principally from without, similar in this to those accidental causes of promative[?] decay or external injury to the action of which those natural bodies stand exposed.
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    '. | | Eitherside fallacies - their general nature.

    Eitherside Fallacies is a denomination that may serve to characterize /for the designation of/ all such fallacies as are alike suitable /suitable/ to both positions. viz. that of the Ins, and that of the Outs: being applicable at pleasure either to the /in defence/ of some abuse or imperfection of the existing system of laws, government and administration or or in some instances /in the case of some of them/ to the defence of individual misconduct and /or/ transgression on the part of administration - on the part of the Ins.

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