1819 Aug. 15 4 ult

Fallacies Ch | | Logical Highfliers

4

1. Exposition

Suppose for example you have /to defend/ groundless or needless wars sinecure or useless or needless or overpaid offices, lay or ecclesiastical to defend, and this is among the fallacies you employ in the defence of these abuses.

1 In the first place, the course you take is suppose the director[?] and laudative.

1. The official cause or instrument by which the Offices have been instituted or that by which they have been kept on fort[?] and maintained is a measure of government. You accordingly pronounce a panegyric /an elogium/ on Government.

2 It will seldom happen but that these works of government called Laws have been employed to the same purpose. Here then is another theme or subject for your panegyric.

3 In the aggregate system of law in every /this as in every other/ country, there is one branch which has taken for its province the delineation of the powers possessed and exercised by the ruling few, and the description of the sorts of persons by whom these powers are possessed and exercised. This branch is termed the Constitutional branch: the fruit of it, the Constitution Third theme for you panegyric, the Constitution.

4 Among the objects in the creation or preservation of which the Government, the Laws, and the Constitution have been employed, are certain objects called Institutions. The institution of a sinecure office, a useless office, a useless office, the institution of the overpay of an overpaid office, is an Institution. Fourth theme or subject for panegyric, Institutions. [...?] for the purpose of calling in national prejudice to the assistance of this fallacy, add the adjunct English - say English Institutions.