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Fallacies Ch | | Self

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1. Exposition

Remains probity as the only groun upon which this sort of rhetorician can venture to promise himself any chance of being heard.

The triumph in his instance /breast/ of /To /to/ the/ motives of the social class, and these acting upon the most extensive scale that the subject in hand admitts of, viz that of public spirit, love of country understand the whole country - to which among the Semi-Social motives are added, the motive properly termed love of reputation but veiled, adorned and decently /decorously/ obscured by the word honour or some such sentimental appellative, and the fear of God, one or both of them - To /In/ motives of one of other of these pure each intimiation is given that, on the occasion in question as on all other occasions the cause of all his actions is to be looked for, in preference to or rather to the exclusion of all motives of the dissocial class and of all motives of the self-regarding class.

(| |) For an analtyical sketch and enumeration /list/ of the motives to the action of which the human breast is exposed as fixt in their import and explained by their relation to the sensations of pain and pleasure see Introduction to morals and legislation. Ch.