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1819 Aug. 16 *14 Fallacies Ch |
1819 Aug. 16 *14

Fallacies Ch | | Logical

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Order

In this country, in which tyranny has not yet found it expedient to throw off all cloaks, a sort of delicacy in this particular is observed. On the Continent, for the justification of every thing that is done the word order in paris naturalibus /stark naked/, and without a eulogistic epithet has generally been regarded as sufficient: though in France to this subject the despot such has been his condescension has now and then prefixt the conciliatory adjunct bon - good order being the sort of order of which he would sometimes be pleased to profess the maintenance. But in England, on an occasion of this sort prefixt to the word order has been the word social: but more especially when the cloak employed has been of the vituperative cast. Thus when for the purpose of heaping odium on this or that man whose endeavour had been to promote reform or improvement the word order has in this way been employed as an instrument the word social ha been attached /prefixt/ to it. The phrase An enemy to order presents the idea rather of weakness of the understanding: The phrase an enemy to social order adds to that idea, that of the blackness of the heart.

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