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Fallacies Ch | | Causes & Obstacle

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| | Universities 1. Virtue

| | 1. Virtue Universities

If perjury be any thing, if it any the slightest degree there be any thing wrong in it, the more completely innoxious and insignificant those acts are, by the commission of which the oath is violated and perjury committed, the more inexcusable is the act of those by whom it is caused this uselessly and tr[...?]ly produced. If the transgression had any thing mischievous in it, the prevention of it would in proportion to the mischief prevented by productive of beneficial consequence, and the mischief of the perjury and the subornation of the perjury have so much good to set against it. But if in the transgression there be nothing mischievous in the prevention of it there is nothing beneficial, and the mischief /evil/ of the perjury and the subornation is so much pure evil, unalloyed and unemp[...?]cated and unalloyed.