12 July 1810 B 2

Fallacies Ch | | Ins employ mass

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The same individuals by who at one point of time occupy the position from whence they receive their denomination of the Ins, occupy at another time that opposite position which gives denomination to the Outs. In the difference between position and position, and not in any difference in point of character as between individual and individual is /must/ therefore be sought whatsoever difference there may be in respect of the number and variety of the fallacies they are respectively /went[?]/ in the habit of making use of /giving employment to/.

But what has been already shewn is (+) that whatsoever finds himself in the position occupied by the Ins finds himself encompassed with /stationed in the midst of/ an immense stock /mass/ of abuses and other imperfections in the defence of which he finds himself not only /merely/ invited but compelled /constrained/ to be incessantly occupied: and it is the characteristic of the whole of that division of fallacies which some /ranks[?]/ /belongs/ under the title of fallacies of the Ins it is the /belong two/ characteristic property /properties/, that they serve /useful/ /effectual/ each of them tom the purpose of being employed in the defence of the whole and each part of the common stock of abuses and imperfections, and that they useless with reference to any good purpose or indeed with reference to every other purpose.

(+)  Where? Preceding Chapter.