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10 Aug. 1811 Fallacies 2 Ch. | | Lawyers
10 Aug. 1811

Fallacies 2 Ch. | | Lawyers & Churchmen

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There are receipts[?] and in the instance of some /many/, constitutions sure ans[?] for the believing of any thing how monstrous so ever the absurdity of it: hope and fear, reward and punishment - eventual expectation of extacy and agony both screwed up to the highest pitch as well in the scale of duration as in that of intensity are instruments by the force of which the throats of the many may be made and beyond doubt are actually are made to gulp down pills /bolures[?]/ of the utmost conceivable degree of intellectual nanserceness[?].

Exposed to the action of such instruments, the judgement is in the great bulk of human constitutions absolutely under /at/ the command of the affections. Were not this the case, or at least in a very extensive degree /to a great extent/ understood to be the case, faith, that is belief persuasion as applied to objects of a particular class would never have been brought to view as we see it /it is seen/ brought to view in the character of a duty - and that a duty on the fulfilment or non fulfilment of which depends the difference between infinite felicity and infinite misery both infinite, as above.
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    There has already been occasion to bring to view the case of a middle or rather mixt state between that of evil consciousness and that of temerity - between that of improbity and that of weakness on the part of an /the/ utterer of these instruments of deception which may be characterized by the denomination /come under the denomination/ of political fallacies.

    As between the lawyer and the Churchman /priest/ it may be matter of curiosity at least to observe /consider/ in what relative proportions those ingredients may naturally be expected to be found mixt in these respective bosoms.

    The more thoroughly /closely/ the nature of their respective occupations and situations is considered, the more closely it will appear that as between the one state and the other in regard to any fallacy the disceptiveness of which is in its remaining unperceived by the utterer supposing then both pure on the probability of evil /the scale of probability/ consciousness is in the part of the man of laws at the highest, on the part of the churchman at the lowest pitch: or supposing as above, the acceptance and utterance of the fallacy in question to have for its cause a mixture of improbity and weakness, it is in the lawyers case that the rules of the improbity to the weakness will be at the highest point in the case of the Churchman at the lowest point of the scale,
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    So numerous and multifarious are the instruments of persuasion which in the character of fallacies there will be need to bring to view, that to enable the mind /concpetion/ to obtain any tolerable command over them, it will be necessary to look out for some sources /grounds/ of [...?]ntial and universal and reciprocal relate[?] such as may serve as in the character of common principles of connection by which they may be bound /tied/ together in the mind, some which[?] their points of coincidence /similitude/ /agreement/ or contiguity may be brought to view, and at the same time as in the character of grounds of distinction /marks of discrimination/ by which their points of distinction and contrast/ may be brought to view.
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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.