1819 Aug. 13 ult

Fallacies Ch | | Logical High-flyer

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1. Exposition

2. Order - maintenance of Order.

Foul spot, tyranny: cover, Order, or upon occasion good order

Be the tyranny ever so excruciating, still by the maintenance of it the tyranny it can not be denied but that order is maintained.

Order maintenance of order are accordingly favourite phrases on the /European/ Continent of Europe in the mouths of the despot and their instruments: under the English Constitution not unfrequent, especially among the avowed advocates of despotism.

Sometimes by way of reason, when some arrangement for the effectual support of despotism and its tyranny is brought forward, instead of order, good order is the phrase. But by good order it being so obvious that the order whatever it be, and how replete soever with tyranny which it the please of the despot be established is meant - that and nothing better, much is not by this variation gained.

By some such words as public happiness or somewhat better bidding might be made for public favour than by order alone, or by that word and any other along with it. But in the use of any such phrase as public happiness there is more or less of danger. For by these words men are apt to be put upon the look-out for the effect of the Measure upon human feelings, upon human pains and human pleasures.

Upon the whole therefore in a public instrument or a private treatise no uninstructive indication may be seen of the disposition /character/ of the penmans mind, when the maintenance of order is spoken of as

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the object he has in view: of the word order, whether the expletive good be or be not added to it.

2. Forms.