10 Aug. 1811

Fallacies 4 Ch. | | Parts bearable

Without any imputation on the score of probity /upon probity/, the exterior acceptance the utterance given to a fallacy may have had sinister interest /interest/ for its cause.

If the fallaciousness of the instrument of persuasion employed is perceived by him who utters and employs it /gives utterance and employment/, here there is a case where evil consciousness and consequent /correspondent/ improbity have place: the seat of this imperfection is in the moral part of the man's /mental/ frame if it be altogether unperceived, then the case is a case of weakness, no improbity, and the case if a mere case of weakness - mental weakness, the seat of the imperfection is in the intellectual part of the man's frame