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1821 March 18 Fallacies III Outs Pt
1821 March 18

Fallacies III Outs Pt IX Envying

Ch. 2. Blind Job Denouncers Cry

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As in the former /other/ case, so in this - what fallacy there is in the argument or discourse consists merely in any partiality which may come to have been manifested by him by whom it has been employed, bringing the evil exclusively to view and saying nothing of the good: emforcing[?] his entries to the evil side of the account, entering nothing or less than is due on the good side

This is always the case, in so far as the circumstances of personal benefit derived or derivable in this or that shape to this or that individual, is employed in the character of a conclusive argument against the transaction or in a word the measure.

As with obvious propriety the ground of suspicion in question applies to all transactions between individual and government or it is not unused to be applied to transactions even between individual and individual

The language this employed on any such occasion is not unapt to be sincere: the inference or evidence this given as conclusive, is not unapt to have really been regarded as such by him to whom in that character it is presented to others.

In so far as it is sincere, the use made of it has its origin in the /that/ ignorance which is so generally prevalent in regard to the structure of the human mind and the springs of action by which is it kept in work: in the ignorance that has place in regard to the real state of the mind, and in the tendency of the passions concerned, the passions of jealousy and envy to make a partial and as such /thence/ an unjust application of such conception as a man has of its psychological mechanism.
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