July 1810 Hatchet for Paley's Net

Fallacies? Non Informed in Fallacies

Condition against his interest lawyers is not thus

incredible. Ex.gr. describing

Case of the findness of Lawyers capitally punishing laws

counteracted with almost constant pardons. Professional sinister

interest served by it. 1. By familiarizing the people with the

exercise of arbitrary power. 2. with habitual courses of insincerity in the past of their rules.

True it is , that supposing a case an instance brought to

view in which, on a question of legislation, the interest

of the fraternity of lawyers lying printing manifestly

one way, the opinion of this is that lawyer is

seen printing the opposite way, the fallacious tendency

of the argument from authority could not may in

but in this case experience considerable diminution this case be with propriety considered as being in a considerable

degree diminished

Take for instance a case which not long

ago was seen to exemplified. receive it exemplification

Amongst other points features characters of depravity which it

is the interest of the fraternity to maintain in the texture

of the law is this: viz. that the lives of the other

members of this community should to as great an extent

as possible be placed at the arbitrary disposal of

such of them as are placed raised. into stationed in the situation of Judges

Were indeed the case such that the highes classes ranks of the

community, those to which the numbers bearing a

part in legislation, they and their associates, belong,

could consider themselves as exposed to any

danger from this tyranny it would not be endured.

It would not be endured, for example, if

those whose depredations takes the public for their subject matter properly

for this subject matter, and the peculation forthe crime of peculation

for the form shape in which they act manifest themselves increase were involved.