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1811 Aug. 4. ++ ad Juperbriam
Fallacies Fallacies Ch. 4. Excellence-haters
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Ch | | Excellence-hater's or Excellence-abhorers or Perfectibility-denier's device.
This after Popular-Corruption-pleader's? as cutting off all hope.
' 1. Exposition and Exposure
This fallacy is naturally and generally if not necessarily connected with another, viz. one of the modifications of the Vituperative-personality-utterer's fallacy /device/ viz. the Bad-principle inferrer's whose device /aphorism/ is noscitur ex consintatuis[?].
To say nakedly and bluntly - Excellence, perfection is the object of my abhorrence - it is for itself, for its own same that I abher it, would /might/ be too much for the effrontery even of this class of politicians[?]: too much to practice in the way of effrontery on the one hand /part/, too much to expect in the way of irrational acquiesence on the other.
Ask one of these abhorrer's of every thing that is most good why it is that he abhorrs it - his answer is ready /at hand/ - This is one of your French principles this is a principle that was maintained by Your Preistly, Your Condorcet, Your Godwin &c &c.
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