9 Aug. 1811

Fallacies

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Historical Sketch

[...?] Fallacies

Serve three fallacies of men[?]: not use of the ly which much mischief has not been produced

That any instance should ever have happened in which a man was by any one of these instruments of deception really deceived, and in such sort deceived, as that from the deception any practical error any act attended with /productive of/ consequences of a mischevious nature was the result, is surely to be conceived.: but though there should be few or none of them by which any man was ever deceived, there is not one of them by which /is being[?] at least/ if not in [...?], is being[?] at least /at any rate/, may not have been puzzled.

Little as at this time of day one should have been apt to imagine any such thing, some /of some considerable/ effectin short their day they must have been productive, or that degree of consideration which it seems was actually derived /obtained/ not only from the fabrication of them could not have been acquired:

Though it is to him that we are indebted fro the enumeration, the exemplification and thereby for the exposure of them, it appears not that his was the hand by which they were any one of them fabricated /contrived and fashioned/