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Fallacies B. 1.

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Ch. 1. Generalia

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4.1 of the

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The meloriative causes seem principally referable to one or another of two general heads, viz. 1. the ameloriation of experience. 2. the continually increasing facility given to the body /by the operation of the party[?]/ of the people (ruling and other leading members of the community included, by the operation of the press for availing themselves of the body of experience so accumulated.

/of/ The pejorative causes the description and test will vary with the nature of the constitution or frame of government

Under the British Constitution they seem all comprizable under one head /three heads/, viz. increase of the quantity of the matter of corruption: whereby, the House of Commons which should operate, and in appearance continues to operate and in so far as it is of use operates in reality as a check upon the executive government - upon the power of the crown, is liable to be and in a great degree has been converted into an instrument serving for the protection and increase of those abuses which it ought remove /effect the removal/ and prevent.

2. Increase of its efficiency.

3. Insensibility of the people: viz. with reference either to the existence or to the mischeviousness of the disease