1819 Aug. 9

Fallacies 1 Preface or Generalia

| | Causes of

coining

utterance or acceptance

Of all these several distinguishable causes of misjudgement, misdiscourse and misconduct there is not one of the existence of which is not compatiable with that of all the others in the same receptacle: the proportion in which they thus have place in each other's company are numerous infinitely variable diversificable: nor is it by any means necessary that by the mind in which they exist and are productive of these effects their existence - the place they occupy it, and /or/ the influence they exercise in it should be matter of observation. To decompose their own minds - to resolve them into two as it were distinct ones, the one of which is occupied in making observations on the other is a process, the relish /to [...?]/ for which, and consequently the habit of carrying on[?] which is the lot of the very few.

of Those who are governed exclusively by sinister interest there are two distinguishable classess: 1. those to whom it has never occurred to make pretention to any social feeling upon any enlarged scale /, with the exception of social feeling upon a small /narrow/ scale, and antisocial upon an[?] a scale of every variety of extent,/ conscious of the main spring not to say the only one by which they are moved, it would seem to them an idle task to look out for any other.

A task from which neither pleasure nor profit neither immediate nor remote good is looked for, will not be voluntary[?] undertaken - and of this sort, in the eyes of all but a few will naturally and at all times ne the task of observation and scouting[?] as applied to a man's own mind.

Much smaller than the number of those who are conversant with the anatomy of the body is that of hose the

object

object of whose study is the anatomy and physiology of the mind