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24 June 1811 5 Fallacies CH. 2. Posterity
24 June 1811 5

Fallacies CH. 2. Posterity Chainers

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1. Exposure

1 Politicians at large

The praise of probity and the joint praise of sagacity and liberality - between these two praises he has to take his choice.

An engagement is a sacred thing. one enjoyment /Contract/ is the main[?] foundation of justice Fiat justitia, neat[?] coelum[?]

It is with engagements as with the sabbath. "The sabbath was made for men, not man for the Sabbath." And so is it with engagements. Salus populi suprema lex estu[?].

Taking one of these aphorisms for the exergue of a guinea /half penny/ on the face of it, the other on the reverse, a man might toss up, heads and tails /cross and pile/. Whether heads /cross/ turn up of tails /pile/ the politician /our Machiavel/ finds himself equally at his ease
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