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Fallacies Ch | | Cause and Obstacle

| | Universities 1. Virtue

A A Virtue Universities

Others in the character /situation/ of Judges punishing falsehood in its several forms and various applications where any thing is to be got or nothing is to be lost by punishing it, rewarding it where any thing is to be got by rewarding it, enforcing it by punishment annexed to the non-commission of it where any thing is to be got by thus enforcing it, and even practicing it /practicing it without measure and without shame/ where money or power the source of money is to be got by practicing it.

Note

(a)

(a) See Scotch Reform Lett. 1. title [...?] Mendacity-licence. and see even Balckstone Commentaries on the scanty accounts he gives /few and loose hints he gives/ of fiction and the use made of it for the purpose of gaining power on which he is tolerable explicit not to speak of money on the subject of which he maintains a decent and prudent silence.